Re: url-retrieve-synchronously and coding

[Julien Danjou]

On Mon, Jan 24 2011, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> It looks to me like url-insert-file-contents is a code place for
> decoding. So I suggest the following:
>
> 1) Move the decoding from url-insert to url-insert-file-contents.

I'd like to be able to use the coding detection code and decoding on
already retrieved buffer, so this can be used in
url-insert-file-contents, but it must be a autonomous function that I
can call myself.

> 2) Replace the call to decode-coding-inserted-region in
> url-insert-file-contents with something that also takes care of xml
> encoding and similar things.
>
> But I wonder what to use for 2. Something like Julien suggested seems
> good to me. If no entry is find (or used) in
> mm-decoder-helper-functions then probably
> decode-coding-inserted-region should be called.

Sounds good.

> This of course means that the functions for decoding should be in
> url-handlers.el (which Julien objected against).

Why cannot be it in mm (or another possibly new package)?

-- 
Julien Danjou
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