Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Frank Schmitt >> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:36:36 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org >> >> Andreas Schwab writes: >> >> > Frank Schmitt writes: >> > >> >> In Emacs 23 in the mail from my boss I get >> >> Char: � (4194300, #o17777774, #x3ffffc, raw-byte) point=212 of 461 (46%) column=4 >> > >> > How is that character encoded in the mail? >> >> You mean the headers of the mail? > > No, Andreas means what sequence of 8-bit bytes was used to encode the > character in the original message? A utf-8 encoding uses several > bytes to encode a single character; can you please show those bytes > from the body of the original mail message? But how should I do this? Just yanking? Here we go: ü -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.