| Jeff Abrahamson on 23 Dec 2003 10:01:02 -0500 |
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When I reply to mail, but, oddly, not when I forward it, some high ascii punctuation is rendered as octal rather than the right symbol. For example, apostrophe is \222; quotes and dashes are also sometimes rendered in octal. When I forward such mail and then look at the file in /tmp/ that emacs is using, I can see that the punctuation is still high ascii, but emacs has gotten it right. For some reason, emacs gets it wrong when I am replying. I do have a text/* viewer specified, so maybe that is confusing emacs. But if I don't specify a viewer for text/* (or at least text/plain), mutt won't view it automatically for me. That doesn't seem right, either. I'm tempted to modify my text/* viewer to "correct" the special punctuation, but I suspect there's a better solution. Or, at least, a better explanation. Why does emacs sometimes recognize the character set and sometimes not? I have LANG=en_US. I've tried LANG=en_US.utf8, but it doesn't make things better that I can tell. (BTW, most such mail seems to come from Outlook users, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to change their behavior, so I figure I should accommodate it.) Thoughts? -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
pgpF7cGbxuggO.pgp
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