Re: smtpmail support of unicode passwords

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:27:49 +0200
> 
> Hello, smtpmail fails to send mails when the SMTP user password contain
> utf8 chars, since it seems base64-encode-string doesn’t support
> multibyte encoding, it prevented me to start using Gnus for some months
> before I understood what was happening.
> 
> Here’s attached the patch.

I don't think string-as-unibyte is correct here, please try

  (encode-coding-string (concat "\0" user "\0" password) 'utf-8)

instead.