bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:36:36 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>> 
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> In Emacs 23 in the mail from my boss I get
>> >> Char: � (4194300, #o17777774, #x3ffffc, raw-byte) point=212 of 461 (46%) column=4
>> >
>> > How is that character encoded in the mail?
>> 
>> You mean the headers of the mail?
>
> No, Andreas means what sequence of 8-bit bytes was used to encode the
> character in the original message?  A utf-8 encoding uses several
> bytes to encode a single character; can you please show those bytes
> from the body of the original mail message?

But how should I do this? Just yanking? Here we go: ü

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