Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE écrit:

> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>   > If I visit `foo' literally, I see that there is _already_ a \201 there.

> I copied the file from an nnml directory, so somewhere, Gnus is
> saving \201 to disk with nnml.  I'll try to find out how that happens.

You know, in case it reassures you (but it frightens me :-), those \201
are multiplying like Martians ever since I started to use Mule with Emacs,
and not specifically with 20.3.8.  And, like the Martians of the story[1],
nobody seems to be able to get rid of them.

In one chapter, Richard Stallman secretly works in his basement to a solution
that will eradicate them.  In another chapter, Handa-san (Ken'ichi) does
the same with another invention.  In yet another effort, Lars Ingebrigtsen
feels he is the genious that would, at last, get rid of the infestation.

The same as in the story, their tries are, by pure coincidence, all scheduled
to happen on the very same day.  As you expect, that day, all those \201 will
suddenly go away.  Each of our three clever men will think he is the one that
saved the situation.  But us, `ding' readers, will know that no reason holds,
and it might just be yet another coincidence that \201 disappeared that day.

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[1] "Martians, go home!"

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