Re: "à" in title makes damaged pdf

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> So much for my theory that a mail attachment is a guarantee for a
> byte-for-byte faithful copy.  On my side, the file was definitely
> UTF-8-encoded.
>
> I have to agree that what appears on Gmane (where I read this list)
> was Latin-1 encoded however.  Let's see whether sending to the list
> server fares better.
>
> Attached again.

The version on Gmane is Latin-1 encoded, the version in the GNU list
server archives (and most likely the version people subscribed directly
to the list rather than reading it via Gmane) is UTF-8 encoded.  For
both mails.

So it would seem that Gmane chooses to reencode attachments in Latin-1.
That's a rather serious blunder.

-- 
David Kastrup