Re: Help with this article with all the \XXX

[Mark Triggs]

William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> Passer By <sender@sender.send> writes:
>> ...
>>> Does everyone see how there are all these \222 \223 \224 etc
>>> how do i get them to look like the normal ',", etc. chars
>>
>> ...
>> The problem comes from the sender who indicates the wrong encoding for
>> their characters.  Notably, from MS-Windows programs who announce
>> ISO-8859-1 encoding when they include WINDOWS-1252 characters.
>
> There are times when I'm helped by washing.  In a group Summary
> buffer see the menu "Article->Washing".  For example, W Y f

Resurrecting quite an old thread there, but I think W d
(`gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes') does the trick in this case.

Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Triggs
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