Re: html mail and odd characters

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Feb 20 2012, George McNinch wrote:

>     GM> e.g. I snipped the following text from such an email. The text
>     GM> has a whitespace character which shows up as an underscore (and
>     GM> not in the standard "foreground color") when I paste it into
>     GM> another emacs buffer:
>
>     GM>   WEDNESDAY, February 22,  9:00 – 10:00 AM
>
> I forgot to add (probably it is obvious) that e.g. I see this funny
> character in a message composition buffer if I C-c C-y
> (message-yank-original) while replying.

 M-x describe-char RET gives the following information:

,----[ M-x describe-char RET ]
|         character:   (160, #o240, #xa0)
| preferred charset: iso-8859-1 (Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1))
|        code point: 0xA0
|            syntax: .  which means: punctuation
|          category: .:Base, b:Arabic, j:Japanese, l:Latin
|       buffer code: #xC2 #xA0
|         file code: #xC2 #xA0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs)
|           display: by this font (glyph code)
|     x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 (#xA0)
|    hardcoded face: nobreak-space
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: NO-BREAK SPACE
|   old-name: NON-BREAKING SPACE
|   general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
|   decomposition: (noBreak 32) (noBreak ' ')
`----

So what you see is the character "NO-BREAK SPACE" displayed with the
special face `nobreak-space':

,----[ M-x describe-face RET nobreak-space RET ]
| Face: nobreak-space (sample) (customize this face)
| Documentation: Face for displaying nobreak space.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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