From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heinz Rommerskirchen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading non-ascii characters, recognise an encoding Date: 12 Sep 2002 10:13:00 +0200 Organization: Siemens Business Services 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031819174 26875 127.0.0.1 (12 Sep 2002 08:26:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:26:14 +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 17pPIi-0006zK-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:26:12 +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 17pPIq-0001Lo-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:26:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.online.be!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed1.sbs.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.12.80 Original-X-Trace: news.mch.sbs.de 1031818380 16031 139.21.12.80 (12 Sep 2002 08:13:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:13:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104795 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:1350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1350 Andrew Torda writes: > I sometimes have trouble (maybe always) reading mail from some > Europeans with their representation of non-ascii characters. > Typically, a word looks like > f=FCr > whereas they intend it to look like > fur > with two dots (umlaut) over the "u". > Their mail header says that the message is iso-8859-1 encoding, They (or more probable their mail program) lied, 'f=FCr' is *not* latin-1 but quoted-printable. See the page 'Article Washing' in the Gnus info, especially the entry 'W q'. -- Regards Heinz