\201 rears its ugly head

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

Gnus v5.8.8 (latest cvs as of ~ 1000 UTC), GNU Emacs 20.7.1
(i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Thu Jun 22 2000 on g.wolfram.com

\201 appears before 8-bit characters in emails I send automatically
from a shell script. Here are the files involved:

,----[ ~/mail-test (mode: 777)]
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| /mnt/disk2/billw/local/emacs-20.7/src/emacs-20.7.1 -batch -l mail-test.el -f mail-test
`----

,----[ ~/mail-test.el ]
| (defun mail-test ()
|   (let ((subject "testing")
|         (filename "~/test.txt"))
|   (message-mail "billw" subject)
|   (insert-file filename)
|   (message-send)))
`----

,----[ ~/test.txt ]
| Châlons
`----

I run the shell script `mail-test', which calls emacs in batch mode,
loads ~/mail-test.el, and runs the function `mail-test'.

When I receive the mail in gnus, it looks like this (without the lines
of 70 dashes, of course):

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X-From-Line: billw  Thu Aug 10 12:37:49 2000
Return-Path: <billw@wolfram.com>
Received: from g.wolfram.com (root@g.wolfram.com [140.177.4.48])
	by dragonfly.wolfram.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27220
	for <billw@dragonfly.wolfram.com>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:37:49 -0500 (CDT)
Received: (from billw@localhost)
	by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA12672;
	Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:37:52 -0500
To: billw
Subject: testing
From: Bill White <billw>
Date: 10 Aug 2000 12:37:51 -0500
X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/var/spool/mail/billw
Message-ID: <ruou2ctggpc.fsf@g.wolfram.com>
Lines: 2
Xref: g.wolfram.com mail.misc.2000-08:273

Ch lons
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Any ideas about what's going on?

Thanks -

bw
-- 
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw