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23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>, 1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:39:23 +0200

> 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?  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?

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