Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Daiki Ueno writes:

 > Nope, XEmacs does not have the concept of buffer multibyteness.

True.  It never will, at the Lisp level.

 > I'd recommend to use `decode-coding-string' and `insert' instead of
 > `decode-coding-region', if unsure.

How does that help if the target buffer is unibyte?

 > I heard that the reason why FLIM does not use
 > `{de|en}code-coding-region' is to avoid this confusion.

A better strategy would be to force reading the mbox file as multibyte
binary.  It's a little bit inefficient, but not as inefficient as the
human brain, so who cares?