Quoted-Printable bug?

[Justus Piater]

[I apologize if this has been reported/fixed/answered, but I could not
find a FAQ or archive]

I use semi to compose e-mails using the standard Emacs mail package.
If I set enable-multibyte-characters to nil, everything seems to work
correctly. However, if enable-multibyte-characters is t, it encodes
escaped character sequences that don't make sense to most mail
clients.

Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs if I run mimencode in a
shell within emacs:

# enable-multibyte-characters nil -> correct result:
> echo AàAâAâA | mimencode -q
A=E0A=E2A=E2A

# enable-multibyte-characters t -> escaped garbage:
> echo AàAâAâA | mimencode -q
Unmatched `.
> echo 'AàAâAâA' | mimencode -q
A=1B,A`=1B(BA=1B,Ab=1B(BA=1B,Ab=1B(BA


I use emacs 21.1 with Mandrake 8.2, and the RedHat RPM packages
semi-1.14.3-11, flim-1.14.3-4, apel-10.3-4.

Thanks for any clarification,
Justus

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