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From: "Buchs, Kevin J." <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: reading .msg files from MS Outlook
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:06:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dfcdc$fvt0tp@ironport9.mayo.edu> (raw)

 From time to time I want to open a .msg file which has been created 
from Outlook in emacs on GNU/Linux. The file is a mixed binary/text 
compound document. I'm interested in the text and in the sections that 
contain that, apparently there is a 16-bit encoding where the upper byte 
is null (for English text). But, double nulls mean something different.

I just gave my 'ol college try at employing a variety of character 
encodings when reading the file to no avail.
In the past I did some complex replacements to get rid of nulls and 
still keep word separation.

I have to wonder, is there a better way?

-- Kevin Buchs



             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-21 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-21 19:06 Buchs, Kevin J. [this message]
2014-03-24 20:43 ` reading .msg files from MS Outlook W. Greenhouse

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