On 4 mai 2003, Andreas Jaeger uttered the following:

>  Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>
> >  On 4 mai 2003, Andreas Jaeger spake thusly:
> >
> > >  I just did a cvs update an now get the following when trying to
> > >  display one of Kai's mails on the ding list:
> > >
> > >  Signaling: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
> > >  mail-decode-encoded-word-region(1 2458)
> > >  article-decode-encoded-words()
> > >  run-hooks(article-decode-encoded-words)
> > >  gnus-request-article-this-buffer(1420
> > >  "nnmaildir+gromit:mail.ding") gnus-article-prepare(1420 nil)
> > >  gnus-summary-display-article(1420) gnus-summary-next-page(nil)
> > >  call-interactively(gnus-summary-next-page)
> > >
> > >  Andreas
> >
> >  No problem here. Maybe it is related to your settings ?
>
>  Might be.  What should I check?  I just did another CVS update and
>  DAve's change:
>  (rfc2047-parse-and-decode): Revert last change.
>  Fixed the immediate problem.  But Kai's from still looks broken:
>  From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)

i definetely don't have this problem here even with a recent cvs up. I
can see the weird symbol without problems. Dunno where you should start
your verifications :( Maybe try to check for the default charset you
are using or stuff like that ?

>  Note that: `mail-decode-encoded-word-region' is an alias for
>  `rfc2047-decode-region', an interactive compiled Lisp function
Yep :

,----[ C-h f mail-decode-encoded-word-region RET ]
| mail-decode-encoded-word-region is an alias for `rfc2047-decode-region' in `mail-parse'.
| (mail-decode-encoded-word-region START END)
|
| Decode MIME-encoded words in region between START and END.
|
| [back]
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