Subject: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:15:26 +0200

> From: Frank Schmitt <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:00:07 +0200
> 
> > 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?

Do you still have the original mail text, or can access it?  If so,
something like "od -c" (outside Emacs) on that text or
"M-x find-file-literally" inside Emacs will show you the original
encoding of that character.