Re: Gnus changes in Emacs-Unicode branch

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> > I don't know what that means, but I _hope_ it has nothing to do with
> > the Emacs internal encoding.
> 
> It shouldn't, but I haven't verified it.

Then I don't understand the issue.  [Why is something utf-8 specific
anyhow?  There shouldn't be anything special abut utf-8, which has
been a problem with Gnus code before.]

> > I have tried to _eliminate_ assumptions in the MIME code about what
> > it's running in.  There's little reason for the code to care about the
> > internal encoding, despite how it was written.
> 
> That is good, I think.

If it gets accepted...

> > [This applies to Emacs.  As far as I can tell, XEmacs Mule lacks the
> > necessary machinery to do things properly.]
> 
> It shouldn't be worse than it is today,

I don't understand.  I'm talking about today (or maybe yesterday --
Debian Woody).

> which seems to be enough for many people.

Perhaps they have low expectations and/or there aren't many using it
in anger.