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Re: Change in rmail-start-mail
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Change in rmail-start-mail |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:30 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Why was this change made?
So that the text displayed while you edit the buffer is correct rather
than being some "weird encoding".
> What was the problem it was supposed to solve?
I guess the above.
> It is quite clear that the assumption was that some other code will
> RFC 2047 encode these headers before the message is sent, but what
> code is supposed to do that?
The message sending function needs to do that in any case since
non-ascii chars may have been added manually anyway.
> I use sendmail-user-agent and smtpmail-send-it, and these do not
> encode those headers.
Looks like they have a problem.
> Should the decoding introduced with the above revision be conditioned
> on some specific MUA?
Maybe until the above functions are either fixed or declared obsolete,
we could maybe try and add a hack to leave the encoded text in the
edition buffer, but that sounds like pretty sub-standard behavior.
Stefan