Re: \201 irritation! :-)

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "FP" == François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

 FP> Because I'm not always using Emacs to process these files, and
 FP> eradicating spurious \201 early slow down their multiplication at
 FP> save time.

I suppose you can sacrifice multilingualization by setting
`rmail-file-coding-system' if you must.  Presumably you could maintain
multilingualization by using utf-8 if that works properly.

 >> If there's some bug in Emacs or Gnus, please address it!

 FP> I'm not competent enough to do so.

I mean help to get it fixed.  I would be expected to do that with,
say, recode even if I wasn't familiar with the code.

 >> I assume you've managed to mangle the file somehow or the
 >> displayed article (using TM, perhaps?) by multiple decoding.

 FP> I did not manage to do that.  But I managed to solve the problems
 FP> I had, and it might be a side effect of my ways of doing it.

 FP> When I inspect a file and see six or more \201 in a row, before
 FP> the accented letter one of them applies to,

So the file _has_ been mangled by multiple decoding somewhere.  For a
start, has Gnus even been writing to it, or only reading?  That would
help to narrow it down.