From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77631 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent articles get \201 inserted Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:30 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87hbbda17t.fsf@dod.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299610750 17765 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 18:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25954@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 08 19:59:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27e-0007nY-Hh for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:59:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27M-0004AN-Am; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:58:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27K-00049x-Ak for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:58:46 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27J-0007N4-3O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:58:46 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27I-00068E-Ch for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:44 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px27H-0007dl-Mc for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no ([84.208.226.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YPdT3qGQ1F9xldvgcGtmfxqtvU0= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77631 Archived-At: >>>>> Steinar Bang : > 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.