From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40952 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: b0rken encoding Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:38:17 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176427 3658 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20826 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2001 22:40:44 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 2001 22:40:44 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16HuoS-0004Yf-00; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:40:16 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:40:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA29523 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:39:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20801 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2001 22:40:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20795 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2001 22:40:01 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Dec 2001 22:40:01 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fBMMe43O004016; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:40:05 +0100 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=C3=9Fjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:21:22 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40952 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes: > I have (setq user-full-name "Kai Großjohann") in ~/.gnus and I have > recently converted that file into UTF-8, adding the appropriate "-*- > coding: utf-8; -*-" tag in the first line. > > As you can see, this results in Gnus claiming my name to be > iso-8859-1 encoded in the From header, but actually the ß is two > bytes. I guess it's the UTF-8 encoding of ß... How does it look in the message buffer? Is it UTF-8 or Latin-1? I see you are using CVS Emacs, does it happen in Emacs 21 as well?