From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: \201 back again Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:47:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7458-Fri20Sep2002192255+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3028-Sat21Sep2002005404+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032616284 8024 127.0.0.1 (21 Sep 2002 13:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17skfJ-00025E-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:51:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17slKd-0006F2-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:34:03 +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 17skf2-0007ZJ-00; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17skcY-0007UP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17skcW-0007UD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17skcV-0007U9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17skcT-0006Np-00; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:48:25 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id CDC0FA4CB3; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <3028-Sat21Sep2002005404+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:54:04 +0300") Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8077 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > Richard's message indeed shows \201 characters, but that's only > because they were present in the message itself: > > (re-search-forward "[=C2=81=C2=AB=C2=81=C2=BB{}()]" nil t) > > See those 0xC2 characters before each 8-bit Latin-9 code? > > As for the encoding, it says this: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 The archived message lacks this line. Rmail must learn to add proper MIME header lines. > So the question now is how come Richard's Emacs sent such a badly > encoded message, and why did it think it was in UTF-8 when in fact it > was in emacs-mule? Maybe, Emacs asked whether the user wanted to use this "secure encoding" -- the problem might go away automatically with 21.3 where unification is enabled. ShengHuo ZHU writes: > Don't panic. The original email is emacs-mule encoded without the > content-type header. You can type `0 g emacs-mule RET' to fix it. Thanks for tracking down the problem and telling a work around. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)