Re: Decoding ISO8859-15 -- offending headers

[Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
>
>> I posted earlier about decoding iso8859-15 news articles and here is
>> an article where åäö is replaced by ? when I view it 
>
> This looks like a question mark.  Is this how it looks for you?  Or
> was it an empty box?

It's a questionmark. Sorry for not pointing that out. Should've known.

> The messages looked fine here, but I think you must have the proper
> ISO-8859-15 fonts to display it.

It might be it. Dunno how to check though.

>> but they looked nice when I did C-u g. 
>
> That's weird.  ÅÄÖ have the same code point in 15 as in 1, so if
> somehow your emacs defaults to 1 this might happen, but it doesn't for
> me.  When I C-u g an article containing non-ASCII I always get octal
> sequences for the characters, which is what you should expect.  If you
> C-u g this message, do you see ÅÄÖ as ÅÄÖ or \345\344\346?

As ÅÄÖ.

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