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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect character encoding in received messages
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:07:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zi13ang.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pngc6zpa.fsf@pc-117-162.ovh.com> (Garjola Dindi's message of "Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:13:21 +0100")

Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> writes:

> I have recently been having trouble with Gnus decoding some e-mails as
> ASCII when actually they should be decoded as unicode.

Sounds like there's no Content-Type header in the message that says what
the charset it.

> For instance, in French, the “à” char gets displayed as “\340”.

Then the message isn't encoded as utf-8, but is probably latin-1.

`C-u W M c' in the summary buffer should allow you to decode the message
in the proper charset.

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2019-12-25 18:13 Garjola Dindi
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