Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox

[Stefan Monnier]

>> No, I don't have such an explanation, except that the most natural input
>> for decoding is a unibyte (string|buffer) and the most natural output is
>> a multibyte (string|buffer).  I'd expect that to be pretty obvious.

> That would mean Rmail/mbox will need to use another unibyte scratch
> buffer for decoding MIME-encoded text: first qp- or b64-decode it into
> another unibyte buffer, then decode-coding-region from there to the
> (multibyte) display buffer.

Sure,


        Stefan