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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: usenet <at> frank-schmitt.net

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
Cc: 1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 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 20:15:26 +0200

> From: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
> Cc: 1174 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,  emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> 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.
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