GNU bug report logs - #1174
23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

Previous Next

Full log

Message #105 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:28:40 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:36:36 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
>> 
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> In Emacs 23 in the mail from my boss I get
>> >> Char: � (4194300, #o17777774, #x3ffffc, raw-byte) point=212 of 461 (46%) column=4
>> >
>> > How is that character encoded in the mail?
>> 
>> You mean the headers of the mail?
>
> No, Andreas means what sequence of 8-bit bytes was used to encode the
> character in the original message?

It was acatually the right hint.  ISTR there was a problem in Gnus with
8-bit encoded articles, but all I could find is
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67112>.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab <at> suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.