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Re: Rmail and the raw-text coding system
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Rmail and the raw-text coding system |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:19:10 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > I assume it did so because the buffer contained "invalid" code
>> > points.
>> That would mean that the BABYL file is corrupted. Is it?
> Not as far as I can tell. Weird characters are displayed for some
> messages, but that is normal with Rmail 22 as it doesn't understand
> MIME. I believe the use of raw-text does not lose data.
The BABYL file is supposed to use the emacs-mule encoding. So if it
contains invalid emacs-mule byte sequences, it presumably means
it's corrupted. Of course, maybe they are valid sequences which
Emacs23/24 rejects by mistake, or maybe there's yet something else
going on.
But AFAIK BABYL files use a single encoding for the whole file, and
since around Emacs-21.x that single encoding is supposed to be
emacs-mule (and I seem to remember that the BABYL file is supposed to
contain an annotation at the very beginning saying it's using
emacs-mule, if so).
Stefan
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- Re: Rmail and the raw-text coding system, Mark Lillibridge, 2011/01/14
- Re: Rmail and the raw-text coding system, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/14
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