From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
Subject: Re: octal escapes with rmail
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:40:06 +0300
Message-ID: <83k11lfiax.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <E1jXGap-0005Yk-Uw@fencepost.gnu.org>
 <CA35E3CA-ECA6-4AB5-A1AA-5607C202D683@icloud.com>
 <E1jXNB4-0000Gp-9c@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lfm1fj9v.fsf@gnu.org>
 <E1jXNfu-0001TA-OI@fencepost.gnu.org>
Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202";
	logging-data="60478"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io"
Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, rms@gnu.org, pcr910303@icloud.com,
 Emacs-devel@gnu.org
To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 13:41:36 2020
Return-path: <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org
Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17])
	by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256)
	(Exim 4.92)
	(envelope-from <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>)
	id 1jXNrM-000Fex-Bx
	for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 13:41:36 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50706 helo=lists1p.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
	(envelope-from <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>)
	id 1jXNrK-0007In-TB
	for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 07:41:34 -0400
Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57380)
 by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256)
 (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1jXNqC-0006NJ-U6
 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 07:40:24 -0400
Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50834)
 by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>)
 id 1jXNqC-0002pv-Jx; Sat, 09 May 2020 07:40:24 -0400
Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3996 helo=home-c4e4a596f7)
 by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256)
 (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>)
 id 1jXNq4-0006sy-Ih; Sat, 09 May 2020 07:40:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: <E1jXNfu-0001TA-OI@fencepost.gnu.org> (ams@gnu.org)
X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23
Precedence: list
List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-devel>,
 <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
 <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org
Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel"
 <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249406
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/249406>

> From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
> CC: pcr910303@icloud.com, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, rms@gnu.org,
> 	Emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:29:46 -0400
> 
>    P.S.  Would you please fix your MUA to not mangle non-ASCII names of
>    your correspondents?  They come out as octal escapes, for some
>    reason.  Maybe it's because your message doesn't state an encoding.
> 
> Thank you for the hint. I'm using rmail (and Emacs 26.3), maybe
> someone who knows rmail here can pitch in why it might be doing that
> or where to look.

I'm also using Rmail, so it is not Rmail that causes it, at least not
directly.  Most likely, it's some setting of coding-systems in your
init files.