From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: octal escapes with rmail Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:20:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83lfm1fj9v.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11lfiax.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="82347"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, rms@gnu.org, pcr910303@icloud.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 15:21:26 2020 Return-path: 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 ) id 1jXPPx-000LJP-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 15:21:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPPw-0006mN-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPP4-0005La-Aw for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPP3-0002zI-WA; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXPP2-0004se-8v; Sat, 09 May 2020 09:20:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83k11lfiax.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 May 2020 14:40:06 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249424 Archived-At: > 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. Hm, I don't have any coding-systems settings in my init file. I'll see if I can reproduce this using emacs -Q.