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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: agent articles get \201 inserted
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbbda17t.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yb0aah62cfg.fsf@dod.no>

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

> In the last week or so I've seen a lot of articles with strange \201
> characters.  It looks like they are inserted when the agent saves them.

> The articles I've looked at today are sent with charset=iso-8859-1.
> In the Maildir on the dovecot server they are shown with just the single
> iso-8859-1 character (eg. å).  In the article buffer of Gnus they are
> shown as \201å.  And in the agent cache the characters are \201\345.

> Is there something fishy in the charset the agent believes it has when
> it saves the articles.

This actually happens with nnimap, even without using the agent.  It
looks like ISO-8859-1 is misinterpreted as UTF-8 somehow.  UTF-8 articles
survive intact.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08  9:23 Steinar Bang
2011-03-08 18:58 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2011-03-08 21:34   ` Steinar Bang
2011-03-15 16:37     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-25  5:36       ` Steinar Bang
2011-04-25  7:04         ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-01 15:07           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 15:29             ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-01 15:43               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 16:25                 ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-01 16:46                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 17:20                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-01 18:09                       ` Steinar Bang
2011-05-01 17:29                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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