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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emacs-mime.texi | 23 |
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diff --git a/man/emacs-mime.texi b/man/emacs-mime.texi index 735aeada1b1..d5dc75eb4d4 100644 --- a/man/emacs-mime.texi +++ b/man/emacs-mime.texi @@ -574,8 +574,11 @@ string. It is defined in RFC 2045. The following functions are defined by the library: @deffn Command quoted-printable-decode-region @var{from} @var{to} &optional @var{coding-system} -QP-decode all the encoded text in the region. If @var{coding-system} is -non-nil, decode bytes into characters with that coding-system. +QP-decode all the encoded text in the region. If @var{coding-system} +is non-nil, decode bytes into characters with that coding-system. It +is probably better not to use @var{coding-system}; instead decode into +a unibyte buffer, decode that appropriately and then interpret it as +multibyte. @end deffn @defun quoted-printable-decode-string @var{string} &optional @var{coding-system} @@ -584,12 +587,16 @@ non-nil, decode bytes into characters with that coding-system. @end defun @deffn Command quoted-printable-encode-region @var{from} @var{to} &optional @var{fold} @var{class} -QP-encode all the region. If @var{fold} is non-@var{nil}, fold lines at -76 characters, as required by the RFC. If @var{class} is -non-@code{nil}, translate the characters matched by that class in the -form expected by @var{skip-chars-forward}. If variable -@var{mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding} is defined and non-@code{nil}, fold -lines unconditionally and encode lines starting with @samp{From }. +QP-encode all the region. If @var{fold} is non-@var{nil}, fold lines +at 76 characters, as required by the RFC. If @var{class} is +non-@code{nil}, translate the characters matched by that class, which +should be in the form expected by @var{skip-chars-forward} and should +probably not contain literal eight-bit characters. Specifying +@var{class} makes sense to do extra encoding in header fields. + +If variable @var{mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding} is defined and +non-@code{nil}, fold lines unconditionally and encode @samp{From } and +@samp{-} at the start of lines.. @end deffn @defun quoted-printable-encode-string string |