Re: \271 etc

Re: \271 etc

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:
> I often when using Gnus (it happened in v5.5 too) see a backslash and
> some numbers after it instead of text.  Does anyone know why??

Because Mule in Emacs 20 sucks.
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Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        "Woo hoo!?"
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Re: \271 etc

[Harry Putnam]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.au.dk> writes:

> Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk> writes:
> > I often when using Gnus (it happened in v5.5 too) see a backslash and
> > some numbers after it instead of text.  Does anyone know why??
> 
> Because Mule in Emacs 20 sucks.
> -- 
> Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        "Woo hoo!?"

Its an octal representation of a character your charset doesn't have 
Try putting this in .emacs

(standard-display-european 1)


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Re: \271 etc

[Stainless Steel Rat]

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* Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.au.dk>  on Fri, 19 Mar 1999
| Because Mule in Emacs 20 sucks.

More precicely, because MULE in FSF Emacs 20 is brain-damaged.

XEmacs 20 apparantly does not suffer from the \201 bugs (if it does I have
not heard of them).
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