Laura> Laura Conrad 0> In article , Laura wrote: Laura> I got an email which contained a table of TeX codings for Laura> characters, and also the characters. Most of them looked like Laura> I expected, but there were 3 that displayed wrong in my gnus: Laura> Laura> œ \oe (displayed as \234) Laura> Œ \OE (displayed as \214) Laura> Ÿ \"Y (displayed as \237) Laura> Laura> I'm using: xemacs*font: Laura> -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1 Is your Emacs unibyte or multibyte? IS8859 charsets don't assign characters in the range \200 - \237, so if you're Unibyte, you shouldn't expect anything there. Laura> I also have (x-symbol-initialize) in my .emacs. This doesn't mean anything to me, so forgive me if I misunderstand something later. Laura> When I just 'more' the mail file in and xterm, \oe and \OE are Laura> blank, but \"y displays fine, using the same font as I have Laura> defined for xemacs. I think the ETL fonts include \"Y at \237 - but you haven't told this to Emacs. (aset standard-display-table ?\237 [?\237]) Laura> The relevant headers from the mail are: Laura> Laura> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; Laura> boundary="------------4721D1F8D2DD403F6A49197F" Actually, that's not the most relevant header. What would be more useful would be the Content-Type line of the particular part you're having problems with. If, as I suspect, it has charset=windows-1252, you might be interested in the following display table I wrote for Emacs 19 (no warranty for other emacsen):