\201s in Gnus buffers (Re: off topic alert: XEmacs vs Emacs?)

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>]

(That's not a bug report, but kind of)

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

|   * Kai Gro johann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>  on Tue, 20 Jul 1999
--->--->--->-^^^^
Do you see the \201 here?  I do :-(((

|   None of which I use; in fact, I compile XEmacs without any of them.  I
|   switched to XEmacs specifically because I can build it without the
|   "features" for which I have no use.

I fear, I've to do the same.  Even with Emacs 20.4 the \201 "problem"
isn't solved.  Chaching an article which contains perfectly valid
encoded From lines will add spurious \201s.  Starting with --unibyte
seems to "work".  I'll update Pgnus and than do more tests.

One of the manuals (the Emacs or the Gnus manual) should have a concise
section about setting up Emacs if you want to use Gnus in the 8859
world.  Emacs has a lengthy chapter about Mule but that's not what is
needed (sorry that I've to say this).  I didn't find an section about
the modeline indicators.  Often there are two dashes (= multibyte?),
sometimes there is "-1" (= 8859-1?) but in Gnus or Message buffers I'm
seeing "-=" before the ":".

Other \201 bits are obviously "fixed" with Emacs 20.4 (e.g., umlauts in
menue entries are valid).

I'm not able to say anything about XEmacs which I never used seriously.

-- 
Karl Eichwalder