eml: header_raw converts octets to Perl UTF-8

[public-inbox.git] / lib / PublicInbox / Smsg.pm

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
index 2026c7d900f65c057ba4a1d8a4bea6c0c9ca400e..b132381b4ab2c3a93fd78b1fe042d1710a2c3fe8 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ sub populate {
                # to protect git and NNTP clients
                $val =~ tr/\0\t\n/   /;
 
-               # rare: in case headers have wide chars (not RFC2047-encoded)
-               utf8::decode($val);
-
                # lower-case fields for read-only stuff
                $self->{lc($f)} = $val;