Re: html mail and odd characters

[George McNinch]

    GM> The following *often* happens that when I receive certain html
    GM> emails (presumably composed by exchange or so?).  Gnus (I guess
    GM> it must be shr these days) renders the text of the email fine --
    GM> it looks completely normal.
 
    GM> But when I copy -- using the mouse -- some part of the email
    GM> (say, to add something to my calendar), the resulting text has
    GM> "funny" characters embedded in it.

    GM> e.g. I snipped the following text from such an email. The text
    GM> has a whitespace character which shows up as an underscore (and
    GM> not in the standard "foreground color") when I paste it into
    GM> another emacs buffer:

    GM>   WEDNESDAY, February 22,  9:00 – 10:00 AM

I forgot to add (probably it is obvious) that e.g. I see this funny
character in a message composition buffer if I C-c C-y
(message-yank-original) while replying.


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