Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:48:29 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> CC:  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:32:01 +0100
> >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> >> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> >>
> >> I wonder if this has something to do with the mime codes? I do not know 
> >> anything about it, but could it be that the web server changes something 
> >> in the output?
> > 
> > I think the problem is simply that IE, like Emacs, needs to be told
> > the encoding explicitly, when its defaults are wrong.  There's no
> > magic wand here.
> 
> Maybe, I just do not understand why IE6 just does not save the 
> bytestream it recieves.

For the same reason Emacs doesn't do that with non-ASCII text: it
doesn't treat it as a byte stream, it treats it as an encoded text.