From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: MULE primer
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 13:13:57 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v1tvhn8ou0a.fsf@peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n28kmegw.fsf@sparky.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> > > And the XEmacs and Emacs MULEs are subtly and not-so-subtly
> > > different, in that the XEmacs stuff works and the Emacs stuff
> > > doesn't. (Well.)
> >
> > Can you be more specific on what doesn't "work"?
>
> I just can't seem to get a handle on how things work. If I eval
> `(rfc2047-decode-string "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCTVUybBsoQik=?=")' with
> point in a unibyte buffer, then I get garbage, even if I don't intend
> to insert the string. If I'm in a multibyte buffer, things work. So
> it seems that if you want to have multibyte chars one place, you
> almost have to force all buffers to be multibyte, just to make sure.
> (Which is what those `set-buffer-multibyte' things that are littered
> over Gnus now is all about.)
>
> These things just *work* under XEmacs without having to think about
> them.
If you think that this is a bug, you should report it. This is an
odd-numbered Emacs release, and as such each and every bug you
encounter should be reported as soon as possible, so that a fix can
make it into the subsequent even-numbered release.
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-01 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-31 20:53 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-31 21:14 ` Alan Shutko
1998-08-31 21:38 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-31 22:20 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-09-01 1:10 ` Alan Shutko
1998-09-01 8:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-01 16:13 ` Alan Shutko
1998-09-01 8:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-01 13:13 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
1998-09-01 14:33 ` William M. Perry
1998-09-01 15:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-01 17:43 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-08-31 23:02 ` SL Baur
1998-09-01 8:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
1998-09-01 15:52 ` font suggestions for GNU Emacs? (was Re: MULE primer) John H Palmieri
1998-09-01 19:29 ` John H Palmieri
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