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diff --git a/lisp/gnus/mm-util.el b/lisp/gnus/mm-util.el
index 2a689221f7e..7cb3201f76f 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/mm-util.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/mm-util.el
@@ -57,9 +57,11 @@
mm-mime-mule-charset-alist)
nil t))))
(subst-char-in-string
- . (lambda (from to string) ;; stolen (and renamed) from nnheader.el
- "Replace characters in STRING from FROM to TO."
- (let ((string (substring string 0)) ;Copy string.
+ . (lambda (from to string &optional inplace)
+ ;; stolen (and renamed) from nnheader.el
+ "Replace characters in STRING from FROM to TO.
+ Unless optional argument INPLACE is non-nil, return a new string."
+ (let ((string (if inplace string (copy-sequence string)))
(len (length string))
(idx 0))
;; Replace all occurrences of FROM with TO.
@@ -70,7 +72,31 @@
string)))
(string-as-unibyte . identity)
(string-make-unibyte . identity)
+ ;; string-as-multibyte often doesn't really do what you think it does.
+ ;; Example:
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\201") 0) -> 129 (aka ?\201)
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\300") 0) -> 192 (aka ?\300)
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\300\201") 0) -> 192 (aka ?\300)
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\300\201") 1) -> 129 (aka ?\201)
+ ;; but
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\201\300") 0) -> 2240
+ ;; (aref (string-as-multibyte "\201\300") 1) -> <error>
+ ;; Better use string-to-multibyte or encode-coding-string.
+ ;; If you really need string-as-multibyte somewhere it's usually
+ ;; because you're using the internal emacs-mule representation (maybe
+ ;; because you're using string-as-unibyte somewhere), which is
+ ;; generally a problem in itself.
+ ;; Here is an approximate equivalence table to help think about it:
+ ;; (string-as-multibyte s) ~= (decode-coding-string s 'emacs-mule)
+ ;; (string-to-multibyte s) ~= (decode-coding-string s 'binary)
+ ;; (string-make-multibyte s) ~= (decode-coding-string s locale-coding-system)
(string-as-multibyte . identity)
+ (string-to-multibyte
+ . (lambda (string)
+ "Return a multibyte string with the same individual chars as string."
+ (mapconcat
+ (lambda (ch) (mm-string-as-multibyte (char-to-string ch)))
+ string "")))
(multibyte-string-p . ignore)
;; It is not a MIME function, but some MIME functions use it.
(make-temp-file . (lambda (prefix &optional dir-flag)
@@ -153,7 +179,7 @@ In XEmacs, also return non-nil if CS is a coding system object.
If CS is available, return CS itself in Emacs, and return a coding
system object in XEmacs."
(if (fboundp 'find-coding-system)
- (find-coding-system cs)
+ (and cs (find-coding-system cs))
(if (fboundp 'coding-system-p)
(when (coding-system-p cs)
cs)
@@ -878,7 +904,7 @@ If INHIBIT is non-nil, inhibit `mm-inhibit-file-name-handlers'."
(defun mm-detect-coding-region (start end)
"Like `detect-coding-region' except returning the best one."
(let ((coding-systems
- (detect-coding-region (point) (point-max))))
+ (detect-coding-region start end)))
(or (car-safe coding-systems)
coding-systems)))
(defun mm-detect-coding-region (start end)
@@ -902,5 +928,5 @@ If INHIBIT is non-nil, inhibit `mm-inhibit-file-name-handlers'."
(provide 'mm-util)
-;;; arch-tag: 94dc5388-825d-4fd1-bfa5-2100aa351238
+;; arch-tag: 94dc5388-825d-4fd1-bfa5-2100aa351238
;;; mm-util.el ends here