pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[Kai.Grossjohann]

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Save the following file to a directory, do `G d' on that directory,
look at the message and see the \201 before the Latin-1 character.

Using Emacs 20.3.8.

Can you reproduce this problem?  I hope it is not specific to the
pretest...

kai
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Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[François Pinard]

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

> Save the following file to a directory, do `G d' on that directory,
> look at the message and see the \201 before the Latin-1 character.
> Using Emacs 20.3.8.  Can you reproduce this problem?  I hope it is not
> specific to the pretest...

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

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Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[Kai.Grossjohann]

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.

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Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[François Pinard]

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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Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[Kai.Grossjohann]

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

  > 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.

Well, they weren't there with 0.80 and they appeared with 0.83 (same
Emacs version), so it seems that Gnus is the cause of this.

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Re: pgnus-0.83 inserts \201

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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

> Save the following file to a directory, do `G d' on that directory,
> look at the message and see the \201 before the Latin-1 character.

The problem was that gnus-inews-do-gcc didn't do mml/character
encoding.  Fix in 0.86.

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