Fixes for nnrss.el (and rfc2047.el) in the v5-10 branch (was: Patch: Allow nnrss to be verbose)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Feb 21 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>> In <v93bvpyk3d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reiner Steib wrote:
>> I think such changes should go in the v5-10 branch, too.  But applying
>> the patch (cvs diff -r7.24 -r7.26) fails on v5-10.
>
> I can make it support multilingual text as in the trunk (it
> includes the verbose patch, of course), although it might not be
> a bugfix.  Am I able to do it?  Actually, nnrss in the v5-10
> branch cannot be used at least for Japanese sites, for example:
>
> http://www3.asahi.com/rss/index.rdf
[...]

On Tue, Feb 22 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> Ouch!  It requires an overall replacing of rfc2047.el with the
> one in the trunk.  The main load to me is to write the ChangeLog,
> though.

Katsumi told me that he will try to look into this after releasing the
next version of emacs-w3m.

But if anyone else want to work on it, here are some remarks when
trying to sync `rfc2047.el' and `nnrss.el':

- It seems that nobody has merged the bugfixes from the trunk yet.  We
  should surely do this[1].  Jesper Harder has committed most of them
  on the trunk, but probably he didn't have time for merging them to
  v5-10 (the stable branch) yet.

- We cannot apply all changes blindly (see: "cvs diff -r7.1 -r7.26
  nnrss.el" or better `C-u C-x v = nnrss.el RET 7.1 RET 7.26 RET')
  since we want to keep the v5-10 compatible with Emacs 20.7 and
  XEmacs 21.1.  (E.g. `make-hash-table' is not available in Emacs
  20.7.)

  OTOH, `nnrss.el' is comparable to `gnus-registry.el' and
  `spam-stat.el' where we already use `make-hash-table' there in
  v5-10.  Opinions?

Bye, Reiner.

[1] See a recent bug report from Gaetan Leurent on emacs-devel:
    http://thread.gmane.org/qlkoee2ernr.fsf%40clipper.ens.fr
    <news:qlkoee2ernr.fsf@clipper.ens.fr>
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