Take for example Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from de.talk.romance
Here are some seminal points: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0070_01C58F0E.65ADA4C0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0070_01C58F0E.65ADA4C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Immer wieder trifft man Menschen, die gezielt handeln. In vielen = F=E4llen ist es meistens die Tendenz zum Negativen. Was hat es auf sich? = Now what happens with this on my System? Coding system for saving this buffer: = -- emacs-mule-unix Default coding system (for new files): u -- mule-utf-8 (alias: utf-8) Coding system for keyboard input: nil Coding system for terminal output: u -- utf-8 (alias of mule-utf-8) Defaults for subprocess I/O: decoding: u -- mule-utf-8 (alias: utf-8) encoding: u -- mule-utf-8 (alias: utf-8) Priority order for recognizing coding systems when reading files: 1. mule-utf-8 (alias: utf-8) 2. iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1) [...] My locale is LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= The above now seemingly assembles the above quoted-printable sequences, generates the right latin-1 characters from them, converts them into utf-8, interprets the resulting bytes as latin-1 and converts this reinterpretation then into Emacs MULE, showing a buffer that looks like utf-8 ending up by accident in a latin-1 buffer (the buffer encoding indeed is latin-1). And indeed, recode-region from "buffer was originally encoded as utf-8" to "latin-1" yields the correct result. I get this kind of nonsense not too rarely, most often with multi-part messages that specify an encoding per-part. I think this has been happening in Emacs CVS for at least half a year or so, but it is also possible that the behavior just was not noticed before by me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list Info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english