gnus-article-decode-charset breaks attachments

gnus-article-decode-charset breaks attachments

[james.leifer]

Hi,

I'm running

  GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
2008-05-06 on iridium, modified by Debian

with its built in Gnus v5.13.

When I view received mail messages with (French) accented characters,
gnus is not displaying accented characters correctly (e.g. it shows
backlash codes like \351 instead of e-acute).

When I run gnus-article-decode-charset on the displayed message, the
accented characters suddenly display correctly but the attachments are
no longer hotlinks: if I move the cursor over one and press enter I
get the following error message:

  Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Article inboxx*>

How can I display accents correctly _and_ continue to have attachment
links working?

Please ask me if I can give any more diagnostic info to help debug
this...

Many thanks,
James

Re: gnus-article-decode-charset breaks attachments

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

james.leifer@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm running
>
>   GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
> 2008-05-06 on iridium, modified by Debian
>
> with its built in Gnus v5.13.
>
> When I view received mail messages with (French) accented characters,
> gnus is not displaying accented characters correctly (e.g. it shows
> backlash codes like \351 instead of e-acute).
>
> When I run gnus-article-decode-charset on the displayed message, the
> accented characters suddenly display correctly but the attachments are
> no longer hotlinks: if I move the cursor over one and press enter I
> get the following error message:
>
>   Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Article inboxx*>
>
> How can I display accents correctly _and_ continue to have attachment
> links working?
>
> Please ask me if I can give any more diagnostic info to help debug
> this...
>
> Many thanks,
> James


Could you post the following headers of such message?
  Mime-Version:
  Content-*:
  Subject:

[Use 't' in message buffer to see all headers]

IMHO Most likely you gnus guesses "wrong" charset when charset is not
specified in the headers.

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Re: gnus-article-decode-charset breaks attachments

[james.leifer]

> Could you post the following headers of such message?
>   Mime-Version:
>   Content-*:
>   Subject:
>
> [Use 't' in message buffer to see all headers]
>
> IMHO Most likely you gnus guesses "wrong" charset when charset is not
> specified in the headers.

OK. Here are the relevant headers from a typical message I received
that fails to display accents correctly:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;
  charset="iso-8859-1";
  boundary="------------Boundary-00=_AU7R8WA1VA4000000000"
X-Mailer: IncrediMail (5853718)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
James

Re: gnus-article-decode-charset breaks attachments

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> james.leifer@gmail.com wrote:
> When I run gnus-article-decode-charset on the displayed message, the
> accented characters suddenly display correctly but the attachments are
> no longer hotlinks:

How about trying the `C-d' command in the summary buffer?  It
hopefully splits the article into parts, and you can use any
summary command per parts.

Cf. (info "(gnus)Really Various Summary Commands")