Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The only reliable way to do decoding in buffers is by using
>> the `destination' argument to decode-coding-region so that you can
>> decode from a unibyte buffer into a multibyte buffer.

> Why is that the only reliable method, and what do you suggest as the
> value of `destination' argument for it to DTRT?

As I said in my message: use the dest arg so as to "decode from
a unibyte buffer into a multibyte buffer", so `destination' should be
... a multibyte buffer.

As for why it's the only reliable method, it's because:

>> Dealing with "bytes in a multibyte buffer" or with "non-ascii chars in
>> a unibyte buffer" (as is necessarily the case either as source or as
>> destination if you do the decoding in-place) is just too delicate in my
>> experience (and of course, it's also somewhat inefficient).

I'm not sure which part of the above paragraph is unclear.


        Stefan