From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88217 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Resending email in Gnus, figuring out charset Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 22:10:27 +0200 Message-ID: <837ehxj2rw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87in1ktvau.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87tvl4h2th.fsf@igel.home> <87d0rstpoj.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <83o9bckl57.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh0mlzjm.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <83ftwmhqqy.fsf@gnu.org> <87muqtlx5b.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541016579 16416 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2018 20:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 21:09:34 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwo1-0004Aa-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:09:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwq7-0004em-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:11:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwpL-0004eM-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwpH-0008My-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwp2-0008Bn-7q; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1345 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwp1-0002a2-NV; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:10:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <87muqtlx5b.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (message from Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?= on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:43:44 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230913 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88217 Archived-At: > From: Adam Sjøgren > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:43:44 +0100 > Cc: ding@gnus.org > > Eli writes: > > >> The Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit header means "raw bytes in the > >> body", and the Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 explains how > >> those bytes should be interpreted, right? > > > > These headers tell the receiving end how to interpret the message. > > Yes. So as I received this email, Gnus should be interpreting the bytes > at utf-8. And it seems to be, as they are displayed correctly. The way they are displayed can deceive. > > If you go to one of the offending characters in the Gnus buffer and > > type "C-u C-x =", what does Emacs show about those characters? > > Ok, if I open the feedbase-email in Gnus, before I press S D r to > resend, and move point to → and é in the *Article* buffer, I get: Did you try all of those characters? Just one is enough to cause what you describe. If none of them shows up as belonging to eight-bit charset, the problem could be in how you set up your email encoding (or encoding in general).