Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:29:05 +0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:38:37 +0100
>> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 17:23, Uwe Siart <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Yes. My .gnus.el: <http://www.siart.de/etc/.gnus.el>
>>>       
>> Aha, yes, the bug is reproducible.
>>     
>
> Which bug?
>   

The one where the OP's .gnus.el contains characters which were correctly 
detected as UTF-8 in 23.0.90, but now appear as \200\224 octal escapes, 
as the file is incorrectly detected as Latin-1.