Bug: Incorrect encoding with `O F' or `O f' (was: how to save in "cooked" format?)

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

On Thu, Nov 03 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:

>> * Reiner Steib <ervarefgrvo+tznar@vznc.pp> [2005-11-03 22:01:47 +0100]:
>> `O f', `O F' or `o' with gnus-default-article-saver set to
>> gnus-summary-write-to-file or gnus-summary-save-in-file more or less
>> do what you want.
>
> thanks. this is nice.
> alas, there is just two small problems:
> 1. the Subject line remains in the "=?windows-1251?Q?=..." format
> 2. the text is not saved in the correct encoding.  the file to which I
>    append starts with
> -*- coding: utf-8-unix -*-
>    it is not saved correctly:
>
> [...] Sam!
>
> instead of
>
> Привет Sam!

When I tried several days ago, it worked for me for the body.  I
didn't test encoded Subject lines then.  Now, it doesn't work for me
neither for the body or headers.  :-/

Probably `gnus-article-save' and/or `gnus-summary-save-article' need
to be fixed if we want the commands `O f', `O F' and `O b' to save the
decoded content (ask for a coding system if required).  From the
description in the manual [1], I conclude that this should be the
case.  Alas, I don't have time to do this ATM.  Anyone?

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
,----[ (info "(gnus)Saving Articles") ]
| `O f'
|      Save the current article in plain file format
|      (`gnus-summary-save-article-file').
| 
| `O F'
|      Write the current article in plain file format, overwriting any
|      previous file contents (`gnus-summary-write-article-file').
| 
| `O b'
|      Save the current article body in plain file format
|      (`gnus-summary-save-article-body-file').
`----
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