Re: TRAMP copies binary files incorrectly

[Chris Moore]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Which function is it?
>> >
>> > I believe the function "at fault" is uudecode-decode-region
>
>> Yes, it's uudecode-decode-region.
>
> Ok, I've just installed a fix to make it work on a multibyte
> buffer.

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the problem in `insert', not in
individual uses of it?

Stefan wrote:

| I believe the function "at fault" is uudecode-decode-region, although
| personally I think the problem is much deeper, in the implicit use of
| unibyte-char-to-multibyte in `insert'.

So if the root cause of this is in `insert', isn't that where it
should be fixed?  Otherwise there's a risk that there's other code
which is broken in the same way that uudecode-decode-region was before
your patch.