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28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term

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Message #43 received at 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: bugs <at> gnu.support, 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44664: 28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:30:52 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>,  44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 23:02:28 +0100
> 
> On Nov 17 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:15:01 +0300
> >> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> >> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> 
> >> > That depends on the characters you need to display.  Which characters
> >> > look bad/corrupted in term?  What are their codepoints?
> >> 
> >> �θ��� ���µ� �ƴѵ� 5���� ������??..............................
> >
> > Most of those didn't make it, please show their codepoints instead.
> 
> Thats's the result of mutt trying to interpret (undeclared) BIG5 as
> UTF-8.

In which case it is not a font problem, it is a problem with
undeclared encoding of a mail message.  And the characters aren't
corrupted on display, they are just shown as octal escapes.

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