From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joshua Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: codepage setup (I think) Date: 01 Nov 2002 17:09:47 -0500 Organization: Indiana University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036188616 25488 80.91.224.249 (1 Nov 2002 22:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nobody 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 187jzT-0006cS-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:10:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187k0O-00028s-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:11:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: thresher.cs.indiana.edu Original-X-Trace: rainier.uits.indiana.edu 1036188587 6525 129.79.246.162 (1 Nov 2002 22:09:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@indiana.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:09:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106669 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:3222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3222 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. > -- > ,,, > (o o) > ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/