Attachments getting wrong encoding when saved to disk [Was: font-lock-fontify-* / infinite loop]

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoiú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Mats Lidell: 

 > I'm having problems with attachments in gnus. (Encoding problem #2)[1] If
 > they contain Swedish characters they come out wrong in the file system.

Is this in the attachment names, or in the attachment contents? 

 > Do I need to tweak, customize, something to get it working, or is this
 > a bug? I'm trying to use the same locale through out the system,
 > "sv_SE.UTF-8".

It’s a bug. Gnus should use the binary coding system when writing attached
files to disk; any sniffing should be done when the files are then read in.

 > I see other strange things related to gnus. (Encoding problem #3) If I
 > in UTF8 buffer search for 'å' I search finds it if its there. (Key
 > sequence {C-så}) But in a UTF8 gnus summary buffer I get an "aring not
 > defined." message. What has gnus done to my keys?

I don’t know. I’ll try and reproduce this evening. 

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