Re: [tlug] Stymied by emacs character display

[Jim Blackson <blackson@example.com>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:11:27 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com> wrote:

> Jim Breen writes:
> 
>  >  in On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 19:30, Stephen J. Turnbull
>  > <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com> wrote
> 
>  > > got corrupted somehow and you have a lonely "€" (which has decimal
> 
>  > Hmmm. The "€" in UTF8 is e2 82 ac (U+20AC).
> 
> I don't know how you (of all people on this earth! OK, I guess we can
> leave out Ken Lunde ;-) got EURO SIGN out of that.  At least as I
> received the message from TLUG (*not* as I *sent* it, as I *received*
> it) the message body was tagged as encoded in UTF-8 and transfer-
> encoded in BASE64, and the 'lonely "Whatever"' is encoded 0xC2 0x80,
> which decoded from UTF-8 is 2*64 + 0 = 128, as expected (by me).

128: could it be this was interpreted in a Windows-1252 (CP1252) code
page context, giving the U+20AC Euro sign?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

just an idea,
jimb.