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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Richard Parsons <richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Encoding Outgoing Messages
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:54:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <235A0520-6035-417F-9F60-C83969D512E3@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87li325yf0.fsf@gmail.com>


Am 12.09.2013 um 08:47 schrieb Richard Parsons:

> I've not transcribed the message exactly because actually the "y" has an
> umlaut over it.

My comment is not helpful … "Umlaut" is a German word and names the set of exactly these characters: Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, and ü. The two dots on a vowel or consonant are called a "DIAERESIS". The two dots are also called "TREMA".

> I'm having a problem properly encoding outgoing email when I forward a
> message originally sent to me by work colleagues who use Microsoft
> Outlook.

You should be able to find out in which encoding this message was sent to you. This encoding should be displayed as a particular character at the left edge of the mode-line. Picking that character with the mouse cursor should open a *Help* buffer and explain its meaning. (More relations of displayed character and encoding system used are listed with M-x list-coding-systems.) If the buffer with the received message shows the wrong character and text encoding and you know the proper one, then you can invoke revert-buffer-with-coding-system and pass the proper argument to the function. This function also available from menu: Options -> Multilingual Environment -> Set Coding Systems -> For Reverting This File Now (C-x RET r).

--
Greetings

  Pete

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12  6:47 Encoding Outgoing Messages Richard Parsons
2013-09-12  8:54 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2013-09-13  6:58   ` Richard Parsons

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