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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> "JP" == Jean-Yves Perrier <perrier@nagra-kudelski.ch> writes:
> 
> JP> Note: I'm using pop3.el and Emacs 20.3; set-language-environment may be
> JP> set to Latin-1 or not: no difference.
> 
> Should not make any difference whatsoever, since pop3.el does nothing with
> with languages or character sets or coding systems or any of that crap.  As
> far as it is concerned, messages are data.

Maybe so, but it can make a difference anyway.  I fixed any multibyte
problems when using pop3.el by binding coding-system-for-read to
'binary in pop3-open-server.  I also bound it in pop3-read-response,
but subsequent research shows that that is probably not necessary.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
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