>>>> "Silas" == Silas S Brown
<ssb22(a)cam.ac.uk> writes: 
    Silas> I believe that the '\' character maps to the Yen symbol
    Silas> under iso-2022-jp (at least after the ^[(B shift sequence).
    Silas> However, Mule under VM displayed it as a \, not as a Yen.
XEmacs is correct.  The sequence of octets 01/11 02/08 04/02 invokes
US ASCII (ISO 646-IRV), not JIS X 0201 Roman.  Your correspondent has
a broken mailer.
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