empiric <empiric@netscape.net> writes:

> François Pinard <pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> 
> I am just posting this so you can see what it came out like in my
> article buffer.  Why the \347's ??  Thanks

It's the octal code for the latin-1 character <c with cedilla>.
It'll display correctly if you have an 8-bit terminal with latin-1 font,
and tell Emacs so.  If I remember correctly, it's something like this:
	(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
	(set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1)
	(or enable-multibyte-characters
	    (standard-display-european 1))


-- 
Hallvard