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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