Re: rfc2104 change on 2008-02-01

[Simon Josefsson]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 25 2008, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> If there were mailing list discussions about this, I'd appreciate a
>> pointer to that.  
>
> This change was mentioned (but not really discussed) in the thread
> "Emacs unicode merge changes to Gnus", ...
>
> ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66251/focus=66259 ]
> | > 2008-02-01  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
> | >
> | >   * rfc2104.el (rfc2104-hexstring-to-byte-list): Renamed from
> | >   rfc2104-hexstring-to-bitstring and changed to return a byte list.
> | >   (rfc2104-hash): Convert the result of concat to unibyte string.
> | 
> | `rfc2104.el' is only used in mail/smtpmail.el and net/imap.el, AFAICS.
> | Maybe Simon can comment on this.
> `----

Thanks for the pointer!

I just tried my proposed change with Emacs 23, and it didn't work.
Neither did the old code.  So I think someone who understands how to
deal with binary data in emacs 23 needs to look at this...

>> I don't think I was cc'ed, and I couldn't find any discussion now
>> that I search for it.
>
> ... but I failed to cc you.

Not your fault, I should have paid attention to the mailing list.

/Simon