3 files changed, 12 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index e70ad7d7b8c..be30efa88c3 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-02-07  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * rmail.texi (Rmail Coding) <rmail-redecode-body>: Remove stale
+        documentation of possible problems with redecoding.
+
 2009-02-03  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * rmail.texi (Out of Rmail): Mention b2m.pl.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/rmail.texi b/doc/emacs/rmail.texi
index 844fa34cb4e..1d07f1cc2c1 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/rmail.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/rmail.texi
@@ -1098,24 +1098,10 @@ its characters displayed as empty boxes, this may have happened.
   You can correct the problem by decoding the message again using the
 right coding system, if you can figure out or guess which one is
 right.  To do this, invoke the @kbd{M-x rmail-redecode-body} command.
-It reads the name of a coding system, encodes the message body using
-whichever coding system was used to decode it before, then redecodes
-it using the coding system you specified.  If you specified the right
+It reads the name of a coding system, and then redecodes the message
+using the coding system you specified.  If you specified the right
 coding system, the result should be readable.
 
-  Decoding and encoding using the wrong coding system is lossless for
-most encodings, in particular with 8-bit encodings such as iso-8859 or
-koi8.  So, if the initial attempt to redecode the message didn't
-result in a legible text, you can try other coding systems until you
-succeed.
-
-  With some coding systems, notably those from the iso-2022 family,
-information can be lost in decoding, so that encoding the message
-again won't bring back the original incoming text.  In such a case,
-@code{rmail-redecode-body} cannot work.  However, the problems that
-call for use of @code{rmail-redecode-body} rarely occur with those
-coding systems.  So in practice the command works when you need it.
-
 @node Rmail Editing
 @section Editing Within a Message
 
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 7aca85dc665..d0c80bd4d2c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -937,6 +937,11 @@ Rmail usage unaltered.
 
 FIXME: Add more mbox merge details
 
+*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.
+Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a
+separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original
+message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it.
+
 ** TeX modes
 ---
 *** New option latex-indent-within-escaped-parens