From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30853 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Speight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: decoding characters Date: 12 May 2000 16:22:36 +0100 Organization: Citrix Systems Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167332 10675 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FF7D0520 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 11:23:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB05772; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:23:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 May 2000 10:22:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10340 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:22:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com [195.153.38.114]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63CFD051F for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 11:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (sh.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.4]) by gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with ESMTP id QAA28274 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 16:22:40 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com (hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.26]) by sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with SMTP id QAA04597 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 16:22:39 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from 10.30.224.23 by hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 12 May 2000 16:22:39 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Original-Received: from lanber.cam.eu.citrix.com ([10.70.1.235]) by hwmail01.ctxuk.citrix.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id KQW94LGC; Fri, 12 May 2000 16:22:39 +0100 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List Original-Lines: 51 In-Reply-To: Laura Conrad's message of "12 May 2000 10:38:45 -0400" X-Author-Info: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30853 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30853 Toby> Toby Speight 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> \oe (displayed as \234) Laura> \OE (displayed as \214) Laura> \"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 0> In article , Toby wrote: Toby> Is your Emacs unibyte or multibyte? 0> In article , Laura wrote: Laura> How do I tell? It's whatever came with RedHat. Umm, pass. I'd normally say to ask whoever built it, but that's probably not convenient for you. Anyone? Toby> I think the ETL fonts include \"Y at \237 - but you haven't told Toby> this to Emacs. (aset standard-display-table ?\237 [?\237]) Laura> This gives me "Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil" Hmm. Works for me on GNU Emacs 20.4.1 (i386-*-nt4.0.1381). It probably makes the code I included useless to you. Toby> Actually, that's not the most relevant header. What would be more Toby> useful would be the Content-Type line of the particular part you're Toby> having problems with. Laura> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Laura> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Well, you at least have the satisfaction of knowing that the message is broken. There are no printable characters at those codepoints in any of the IS8859 encodings (for good reason - they are high-page control characters). Tell your correspondent to label messages correctly!