From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: unreadable message Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:05:02 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20081030170648.D58A5A7629@sycore.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226122277 16659 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2008 05:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:31:17 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 06:32:19 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KygQl-0003cc-28 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KygPd-0005gm-1A for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KygPb-0005e9-Ek for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:31:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KygPV-0005Ve-1A for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44888 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KygPU-0005VY-Sb for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:31:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [87.242.74.155] (port=43168 helo=sycore.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KygPU-0004Bm-Ih for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:31:00 -0500 Original-Received: by sycore.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id AF1E6AA5CB; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:30:55 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from sycore.org (h091147011198.ys.dsl.sakhalin.ru [91.147.11.198]) by sycore.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBC3AA5A6 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:30:52 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from alexey by sycore.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KygwQ-0003Jj-Py for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:05:02 +1000 User-Agent: Gnus/5.10 Emacs/22.1 In-Reply-To: <20081030170648.D58A5A7629@sycore.org> (info-gnus-english-request@gnu.org's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:01:27 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11610 Archived-At: Hello Adam! Thanks for your reply. > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:58:03 +0100 > From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj?gren ) > Subject: Re: unreadable message > What, exactly, seems to be the problem? Once the post command (C-c C-c) typed, it may produce garbage. People, who receive the mail, cannot read it. For instance, a friend of mine, who is an ordinary windows user, tried to read it on different machines but with no luck. Frequently, when that happens, I cannot read it either. While you managed to decode that bit, which was actually readable in my outgoing mail box but unreadable at my friend's machine, there is no guarantee it's always possible to do that easily. Usually, what you get after decoding is a set of numbers with backslashes in front of them, which are the unicode character codes, as I understand it. I don't think that manually running base64 decoding is an acceptable alternative for a decent MUA. Unfortunately, the bug is of occasional nature, which means not every text causes that to happen. It seems that Gnus/Emacs functions dealing with unicode may have this bug. -- Rgds Alexey Today is Boomtime, the 20th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174