bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>,  <35507@debbugs.gnu.org>,  
>> <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 15:02:01 +0100
>> 
>> Question following an initial reading of (info "(elisp) Coding System
>> Basics"): would it be better in this case to use prefer-utf-8 instead of
>> undecided?  If not, why not?
>
> Because we have no reason to prefer UTF-8 in this case.  No one tells
> us that x-patch will be predominantly encoded in UTF-8.
>
> The RFC doesn't say that UTF-8 is the default, either, and
> text/x-patch is not defined anywhere with that default.  Which means
> there's no default, and in that case 'undecided' is better, because it
> heeds to the preferences of the user.

Right, thanks for explaining.

-- 
Basil