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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 22:34:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y64pi9e3.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbbda17t.fsf@dod.no>

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@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.

Actually... this seems to be an emacs22 issue.  Happens with emacs22 on
Ubuntu 10.10 and on CentOS5, but not in emacs23 on debian testing.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 21:34 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
2011-03-08 21:34   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
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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