Re: local chars displayed as numbers

[Stefan Monnier]

>     What is the conclusion on this matter?  As I don't know the
>     current situation about the usage of windows-1252, I have no
>     idea.

> I get text in the mail in windows-1252, maybe not every day but often
> enough.

I think this is not relevant unless you open those pieces of text as files.

I also receive windows-1252 email pretty often (and often incorrectly
labelled as latin-1) but I have never opened a text file using window-1252.
The windows-1252 labelling in the Content-Type header makes
preferred-coding-systems unnecessary.  And to deal with the problem of
mislabelled email, I simply tell Gnus to decode all latin-1 email as if it
was using windows-1252.


        Stefan