Re: \201 back again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:04:47 +0200
> 
> > Here's the header I see on my system:
> >
> >   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
> >
> > This is perfectly valid, AFAICS.
> 
> Maybe, some mail gateway did add those lines for you.
> 
> But these lines were missing from the original posting -- RMS never
> ever bothers to add such stuff, I guess ;) :

Sorry,  I now see that I looked at a wrong message, not the one you
had in mind.

Richard's message indeed shows \201 characters, but that's only
because they were present in the message itself:

      (re-search-forward "[=C2=81=C2=AB=C2=81=C2=BB{}()]" nil t)

See those 0xC2 characters before each 8-bit Latin-9 code?

As for the encoding, it says this:

   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

So the question now is how come Richard's Emacs sent such a badly
encoded message, and why did it think it was in UTF-8 when in fact it
was in emacs-mule?