Re: Attachments getting wrong encoding when saved to disk

Re: Attachments getting wrong encoding when saved to disk

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Jan 09 2007, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>  Ar an naoiú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Mats Lidell: 
>
>  > I'm having problems with attachments in gnus. (Encoding problem #2)[1] If
>  > they contain Swedish characters they come out wrong in the file system.
>
> Is this in the attachment names, or in the attachment contents? 
>
>  > Do I need to tweak, customize, something to get it working, or is this
>  > a bug? I'm trying to use the same locale through out the system,
>  > "sv_SE.UTF-8".
>
> It’s a bug. Gnus should use the binary coding system when writing attached
> files to disk; any sniffing should be done when the files are then read in.

Are you sure it's a bug in Gnus?  If so, any idea where it is?  ;-)

We've fixed some maybe related problem in CVS (trunk and stable):

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| 	* uudecode.el (uudecode-decode-region-external): nil isn't a valid
| 	coding system in XEmacs, use binary.
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Bye, Reiner.
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