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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: gnus saves text/html part in wrong encoding before links -dump
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:58:59 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <orprkbuvt8.fsf@livre.oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)

Hi there,

I've just got a chance to investigate why text/html with non-ascii
characters was displayed incorrectly on Fedora 10's GNU Emacs.

Turns out gnus selects links to convert html to text, but then, when
it's fed an iso-8859-1 message encoded with e.g. quoted-printable, it
converts that to iso-8859-1, saves it in a file, and then runs links
-dump.

Unfortunately, elinks-0.12 (unlike 0.11) won't deal with ISO-8859-1
when LANG is *@utf-8, not even with -dump-charset set appropriately.

It seems to me that we try to convert stuff to the system charset
before running links -dump, but it's not making any chances
whatsoever: the file ends up in ISO-8859-1, and then we get output
back from links that's corrupted.

More details at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474069

-- 
Alexandre Oliva           http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/   FSF Latin America board member
Free Software Evangelist      Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer



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