bug#44307: 27.1; UTF-8 parts transferred as 8bit in multipart messages fail to decode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

> Here is the file.  But see by previous message from today.  Reading this
> with nndoc will appear bogus with emacs 27.1, but not with emacs 28.
> However if there is a way to read that mail with nnmaildir, you should
> see the issue with both versions.

Thanks for the test file (and the analysis of the differences between
27.1 and 28 here).  I'll try to work on fix for this in Emacs 27
tomorrow -- I'm not sure the simple fix you outlined won't have adverse
effects if the part in question is binary (i.e., an image or the like).

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