Re: Message forwarding annoyance and message-forward-show-mml

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> > > > But can't you escape "\221\345\256" to whatever is needed for MULE to
> > > > regard them as such?  Doesn't MULE have a "Control-1" escape?
> > > 
> > > I guess not.
> > 
> > That sounds incredible.  :-(
> 
> In a multibyte buffer, the charset of \345 is ascii and \201 cannot
> exist before \345.  In a unibyte buffer, the charset of \201
> followed by \345 is latin-iso8859-1, the charset of \201 followed by
> \201 is ascii.  At least I can not find a charset like control-1 in
> XEmacs.  That is why it is difficult to handle mixed text
> (containing both control (e.g. \201) and non-ascii (e.g. å)
> characters in the same buffer).

Could you present this problem to FSF Emacs developers?  Dave Love for
one used to follow this list.