Re: codepage setup (I think)

[Joshua Goldberg <joshgold@thresher.cs.indiana.edu>]

I'm actually using mh-rmail.* Is there anything generic and
mode-independent I can do to fix the viewing of a buffer containing
these characters?  Something I can do in an mh buffer?  (An ftp'd file
could have them too, I imagine.)

 -Josh

*I tend to use mh-rmail for my inbox and gnus for news and
procmail-refiled, lower priority mail

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 01 2002, Joshua Goldberg wrote:
> 
> > What can I do to properly view text that shows up with inappropriate
> > foreign characters, as well as characters like \200, \234, \235?  The
> > example I'm looking at right now is email from a Mac user.
>                                       ^^^^^
> 
> I assume you use Gnus to read the mail. You should upgrade to Gnus
> 5.8.8 or Gnus 5.9 (the later comes with Emacs 21.2). Gnus 5.7 (see
> your header) isn't MIME aware, IIRC.
> 
> `W d' (gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes) might help you.
> 
> Bye, Reiner.
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