Re: 23.0.60; Coding system troubles since two days

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Since I updated my emacs CVS checkout on march, 26th in the morning
>> (EST) I have some very frustrating coding system issues.  They
>> appeared first when using Gnus (I couldn't read mails of one of my
>> colleagues), then I got some errors with rcirc (which I cannot
>> reproduce).
> [...]
>> Maybe the following change causes the troubles?
>
> Have you tried to revert the change to see if that's indeed the
> culprit?

Yes, please see my followup to my original bug report on emacs-devel.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg02677.html

cvs up -D "2008-03-25 06:00" fixes the problem for me.

> Also, would you be able to make up a reproducible test case?

I don't know how.  I'll attach one of the mails that triggered the
problem.  After reverting my emacs to ""2008-03-25 06:00" I can view
them normally with Gnus, but if I try to save the mail to a file (`O f'
in the *Summary* buffer), I get this:

,----
| These default coding systems were tried to encode text
| in the buffer ` *temp*':
|   (utf-8-unix (403 . 4194294) (749 . 4194300) (788 . 4194276) (840 . 4194276)
|   (853 . 4194276) (892 . 4194271) (1701 . 4194300) (1937 . 4194300) (1938
|   . 4194271))
| However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
|   utf-8-unix cannot encode these: \366 \374 \344 \344 \344 \337 \374
|                                   \374 \337
| 
| Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o'
| and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
| where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it.
| 
| Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
| or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
|    to remove or modify the problematic characters,
| or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
|    the problematic characters).
| 
|   utf-8-emacs
`----

I saved it as raw-text and utf-8-emacs, both files are attached.

One interesting thing: I marked the text above with the mouse and
inserted it into another emacs window with a middle mouse click.  There,
instead of \NNN I get: ö ü ä ä ä ß ü ü ß

This other emacs window I pasted into is a current CVS emacs from today
which includes your change, if that matters.

broken-mail.raw-text
Description: Binary data

broken-mail.utf8-emacs
Description: Binary data

Bye,
Tassilo