Re: '.' at the beginning of summary buffer lines

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@smarttrust.com> writes:

>> It looks nice to me, with a vanilla Emacs 21 and vanilla RedHat
>> fonts.
>
> After sending?

No.  Gnus wouldn't let me post it as UTF-8.

>>> Character set       ‘   ’
>>> --------------------------
>>> Macintosh Roman    212 213
>>> Macintosh Cyrillic 212 213
>>> ISO 8859-7:1987    161 162
>>>
>>> If you want to get the ISO 8859-7 character, you can say:
>>>
>>> (make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 161)
>>> (make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 162)
>> 
>> Doesn't seem to work for me, the characters look like a upside down
>> !  and a cents character with a vertical line.
>
> Well, those two characters in the ISO 8859-7:1987 are defined to be:
>
> Hex | Dec | Chr | Code | ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Character Name
> ----+-----+-----+------+----------------------------
>  A1 | 161 |  ‘  | 8216 | LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK  
>  A2 | 162 |  ’  | 8217 | RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>
> How did you see the characters I put in the message? (after Character
> set, up there). I put them in the buffer with insert-ucs-character. If
> I am not entirely wrong, something bugs if you don't see them as
> quotation marks - or can't insert them as such. The sending charset
> for the message appears to be ISO-8859-7.

The look like a upside down ! and a cents sign with a vertical line
instead of a diagonal one to me.  Emacs 21. Weird.