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Jon Kvebaek <jkv@a.sol.no> writes:

> | Put "Thïs" into an empty buffer, and then eval
> | `(progn (mm-encode-body) (mm-body-encoding))'.  You should get
> | `7bit'.  
> 
> Indeed I do.

Sorry; you should get `8bit'.  :-)

> I do get ascii. On every fscking letter in "Thïs".

Eek.

> Another thing I just realised: If I hit C-\, it says:
>  "Can't activate input method `latin-1-prefix'"

I get the same.

default-input-method's value is 
"latin-1-prefix"

Eh.  What does this mean?  Hm.  I see.  But why is it that (by
default?) if Emacs can't activate it?  Is it a bug, or is it, uh.

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