Re: decoding characters

[Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com>]

>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

    Laura> Laura Conrad <URL:mailto:lconrad@world.std.com>
    0> In article <kh7og6crir4.fsf@acme47.nineco.com>, Laura wrote:

    Laura> I got an email which contained a table of TeX codings for
    Laura> characters, and also the characters.  Most of them looked like
    Laura> I expected, but there were 3 that displayed wrong in my gnus:
    Laura> 
    Laura> œ      \oe (displayed as \234)
    Laura> Π     \OE (displayed as \214)
    Laura> Ÿ      \"Y (displayed as \237)
    Laura> 
    Laura> I'm using: xemacs*font:
    Laura> -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1

    Toby> Is your Emacs unibyte or multibyte?

How do I tell?  It's whatever came with RedHat.


    Laura> When I just 'more' the mail file in and xterm, \oe and \OE are
    Laura> blank, but \"y displays fine, using the same font as I have
    Laura> defined for xemacs.

    Toby> I think the ETL fonts include \"Y at \237 - but you haven't told this
    Toby> to Emacs.  (aset standard-display-table ?\237 [?\237])

This gives me 

        Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil


    Toby> Actually, that's not the most relevant header.  What would be more
    Toby> useful would be the Content-Type line of the particular part you're
    Toby> having problems with.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


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