bug#27029: 26.0.50; gnus & utf are suddenly broken

[Sam Steingold]

sorry, the last time I rebuild emacs was

May 15 10:03

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> wrote:
> I pulled emacs from git and now gnus cannot show utf8 characters.
> In the *Summary* buffer, I see things like "=?utf-8?q?common=3f?=".
> When I try to view such an article, I see:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp ("utf-8" 113 
> "common=3f" "=?utf-8?q?common=3f?="))
>   rfc2047-decode-encoded-words((("utf-8" 113 "common=3f" 
> "=?utf-8?q?common=3f?=")))
>   mail-decode-encoded-word-region(121 197)
>   article-decode-encoded-words()
>   run-hooks(gnus-article-decode-hook)
>   gnus-request-article-this-buffer(63735 
> "nntp+news.gwene.org:gwene.com.reddit.r.jokes")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> the only change is git pull and rebuild.
> the previous time I rebuilt emacs was
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 6, x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.0, NS appkit-1504.83 
> Version 10.12.5 (Build 16F73))
>  of 2017-05-22 built on Clr-Sam.local
> Repository revision: 62046ed3e9b1e95340eb980058b8f7aadae2447a
> Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504
> Recent messages:
>
> Mark saved where search started
> Truncate long lines disabled
> Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules
> Truncate long lines disabled
> mail-decode-encoded-word-region: Wrong type argument: characterp, ("utf-8" 
> 113 "Europe\"=3f" "=?utf-8?q?Europe\"=3f?=")
> Quit
> funcall-interactively: No recursive edit is in progress [7 times]
> Truncate long lines disabled
> Entering debugger...
> Back to top level
>
> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-mailutils --with-ns
>  
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/imagemagick/lib/pkgconfig/
>  --without-makeinfo'
>
> Configured features:
> JPEG NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: C
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>
> Major mode: VC dir
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   vc-parent-buffer: *vc-dir*<trunk>
>   pyvenv-mode: t
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
>   diff-auto-refine-mode: t
>   which-function-mode: t
>   url-handler-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   desktop-save-mode: t
>   cl-old-struct-compat-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
> Load-path shadows:
> /Users/sds/.emacs.d/elpa/scala-mode-20161122.2325/ob-scala hides 
> /Users/sds/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/org/ob-scala
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort gnus-cite bbdb-message mailalias cookie1 nnir emacsbug
> sendmail debug gnus-bcklg qp gnus-async gnus-dup mail-extr gnus-ml
> hl-line disp-table man tabify spam spam-stat gnus-uu yenc nndraft nnmh
> gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score score-mode nnvirtual gnus-msg gnus-art
> mm-uu mml2015 mm-view mml-smime smime dig utf-7 gnus-cache gnus-sum
> bbdb-gnus network-stream nsm starttls nntp gnus-group gnus-undo
> tramp-cmds gnus-start gnus-cloud nnimap nnmail mail-source tls gnutls
> utf7 netrc nnoo gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range gnus-win log-edit message
> subr-x rfc822 mml mml-sec epa epg epg-config mm-decode mm-bodies
> mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 gmm-utils mailheader smerge-mode dabbrev
> skeleton eieio-opt speedbar sb-image ezimage dframe find-func cl-indent
> pp cl-print log-view pcvs-util misearch multi-isearch noutline outline
> tramp-cache add-log remember conf-mode view rng-xsd xsd-regexp rng-cmpct
> rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt
> rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap nxml-util
> nxml-enc xmltok arc-mode archive-mode cursor-sensor mhtml-mode css-mode
> smie color eww puny mm-url url-queue url url-proxy url-privacy
> url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util
> mailcap shr svg xml browse-url js sgml-mode dom dired-aux dired
> dired-loaddefs d-mode cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds
> cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs make-mode vc-hg flyspell
> ispell company-oddmuse company-keywords company-etags company-gtags
> company-dabbrev-code company-dabbrev company-files company-cmake
> company-xcode company-clang company-eclim company-template company-css
> company-nxml company-bbdb cl-extra yasnippet flymake company help-fns
> radix-tree help-mode elpy find-file-in-project ivy delsel ivy-overlay
> ffap thingatpt pyvenv elpy-profile elpy-django s elpy-refactor derived
> edmacro kmacro ido grep compile files-x etags xref project cus-edit
> python tramp-sh tramp tramp-compat tramp-loaddefs trampver shell
> pcomplete parse-time format-spec advice json comint ansi-color rcirc
> ring vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode map vc-dir ewoc vc vc-dispatcher
> finder-inf info package seq warnings midnight ein-loaddefs gnus nnheader
> gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils
> mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit bbdb-mua bbdb-com crm mailabbrev
> bbdb-loaddefs bbdb easymenu bbdb-site timezone server which-func imenu
> url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio byte-opt bytecomp
> byte-compile cconv eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache
> url-vars paren help-at-pt desktop frameset cus-start cus-load cl gv
> cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify
> ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win
> ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode
> lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer
> select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
> term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
> vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
> hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
> chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook
> help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
> button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
> base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
> backquote kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 1063555 91570)
>  (symbols 48 51869 36)
>  (miscs 40 23457 906)
>  (strings 32 246544 12089)
>  (string-bytes 1 6101843)
>  (vectors 16 98839)
>  (vector-slots 8 1782849 31048)
>  (floats 8 520 1052)
>  (intervals 56 53716 327)
>  (buffers 976 134))
>
> --
> Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504
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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org> <http://www.childpsy.net>
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