Re: Those blasted \201 characters

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Sep 15 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Every accented character received in mail from certain senders get
> preceded by the dreaded \201 character. 
>
> I think this happened after I killed an ancient line with
>
> (standard-display-european 1)
>
> to get rid of a UTF8 display problem. It appears to be happening in
> the nnmail step - i.e. there are no \201's in $MAIL, but they are
> there in ~/Mail/misc/mail/12345.  
>
> I tried reinstating the above line, 

Please don't.

> which reintroduced the UTF8 problem, but didn't cure the \201
> thing... (well, maybe I didn't check on newly arrived mail, need to
> recheck).
>
> Any clues? 
>
> [LC_CTYPE=da_DK, other LC items set to C] 

I'm quite sure that there's something bogus in your setup.  I haven't
used Gnus 5.9 since ages, but I guess it should not show this problem
(unless you use standard-display-european).

Could you upgrade to Gnus 5.10.8 or upgrade to CVS Emacs (some
distributions offer it as emacs-snapshot or similar) which includes a
more recent Gnus version and see it the problem persists?

Else, can you send me one of the problematic mails as gzipped
attachment (secret stuff x-ed out)?  If the problem also appears in
news or mailing list article you could simply give us the Message-Id
or the URL to an mbox file if available.

Bye, Reiner.
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