Re: Problems with 8-bit headers

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> However, there is a bug somewhere in core Emacs which makes it misbehave
> when i receive messages with 8-bit content-transfer-encoding and characters
> in the range 0x80--0x9f (which often happens when i receive messages
> in UTF-8).

I fear that this is a strong limitation of Mule for Latin characters.
A kind that may be very hard to repair.

> I store mails in nnmbox backend, and when i receive such a message,
> i get ENORMOUS time delays when pressing `g' in a group buffer, and
> article numbering gets broken (displayed number of articles in a group
> is overestimated), and such things. I think this is because Emacs uses
> "intelligent" auto-detection algorithm which wants to interpret a `mbox'
> buffer as if it were in some charset (mbox is opened in raw mode, but
> this does not help to switch of this "intelligent" behavior, and certain
> character combinations choke Emacs). This is a long-standing bug which
> is there for more than a year, but i don't know how to report it... :-(

When you have such problems, best is often to directly write to the real
Mule author, this very guy who endlessly tries to repair the FSF damage, and
often gets the blame for problems he did not create :-).  He is very busy,
so you should expect some delay in replies: Handa Kenichi <handa@etl.go.jp>.
He often helped me with Mule difficulties, I try to not abuse of his help.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard