Should not write the code point of a character to INBOX

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From: Yuning Feng
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 21:53

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Robert,

As you can see from my previous posts, I use some non-latin characters
in mails in my daily life. There is a problem with VM if there are
multibyte characters in the headers.

After hours of debugging, I was able to extract some information of
the problem. When quitting, VM did `vm-stuff-attributes', and inside
that function, `insert-before-markers', to insert the X-VM-v5-Data. I
had a mail with 2 characters e8 b0 83 e8 af 95 (hex, utf-8) in the
subject. What VM tried to insert (as the argument of `insert-before-
marker'), was 8c03 8db5, the code points of those 2 characters. For
some reason, only 03 b5 was written to the INBOX buffer, and finally
saved. In a later session when VM tried to update the mails summary by
reading X-VM-v6-Data in INBOX, the subject containg 03 b5 showed as an
unreadable annoying string.

I guess the utf-8 codes of characters are to be written to INBOX
instead of their code-points? Could you have a look at the code and
see if it is buggy?

Thanks very much!

Yu Ning

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