From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7986 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dalgaard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Those blasted \201 characters Date: 15 Sep 2006 22:36:54 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158352844 7495 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 20:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 22:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKU6-0002Ih-Bt for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKU5-0001hn-IN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: turmalin.kubism.ku.dk Original-X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1158352614 25686 192.38.18.4 (15 Sep 2006 20:36:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:36:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78171 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org 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:7986 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Fri, Sep 15 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > Every accented character received in mail from certain senders get > > preceded by the dreaded \201 character. > > > > I think this happened after I killed an ancient line with > > > > (standard-display-european 1) > > > > to get rid of a UTF8 display problem. It appears to be happening in > > the nnmail step - i.e. there are no \201's in $MAIL, but they are > > there in ~/Mail/misc/mail/12345. > > > > I tried reinstating the above line, > > Please don't. > > > which reintroduced the UTF8 problem, but didn't cure the \201 > > thing... (well, maybe I didn't check on newly arrived mail, need to > > recheck). > > > > Any clues? > > > > [LC_CTYPE=da_DK, other LC items set to C] > > I'm quite sure that there's something bogus in your setup. I haven't > used Gnus 5.9 since ages, but I guess it should not show this problem > (unless you use standard-display-european). > Could you upgrade to Gnus 5.10.8 or upgrade to CVS Emacs (some > distributions offer it as emacs-snapshot or similar) which includes a > more recent Gnus version and see it the problem persists? That's awkward since it is my department account and they'd rather not support things not in SuSE. (The 10.0 running on some other machines is still only emacs 21.3/gnus 5.9) > Else, can you send me one of the problematic mails as gzipped > attachment (secret stuff x-ed out)? If the problem also appears in > news or mailing list article you could simply give us the Message-Id > or the URL to an mbox file if available. I can give it a try. Most likely I can reproduce with mail sent by myself (which should help with the secrecy thing). The ones that bit me earlier are gone from $MAIL for obvious reasons. Haven't seen it in news. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ุster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907