From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:03:01 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=latin-iso8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033264580 14508 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 01:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vTJi-0003lr-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 03:56:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vTJs-0000CO-00; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:56:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd950160b.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd950160b.dip.t-dialin.net (217.80.22.11) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1033263769 11761241 217.80.22.11 (16 [23066]) X-Orig-Path: ID-23066.news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jqvG1dQj9cedBJ0TKjxrQRw1Z8k= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105466 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2011 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Emacs might not auto-detect UTF-8 out of the box. Does it work if > you say C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f /path/to/the/file RET? > > If it is important, I'm sure it's possible to find out how to improve > UTF-8 autodetection in Emacs. oh, i'd say this is very important. for example, i get GPG encoded messages where the same funny characters are displayed the OP talked about (one funny character plus the normal character one expects to see). this may well be a defficiency in GPG (mailcrypt in my case): i get the cryptogram from an emacs in one characterset, which gets lost in transmission, and gets decoded 1:1 from the perspective of the sender. which turns out to be wrong on my receiving side. but actually, i didn't understand a thing what you and hilarious ilya talked about. what's a glyph other than what a character looks like, anyway? isn't it a picture of a character? clemens