Aidan,
On Saturday, 2018-04-14 13:45:10 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Aibreán, scríobh Dr Rainer Woitok:
...
So, first of all, are you actually having trouble displaying characters you
want displayed? Because if not, then we don’t have an issue.
Well, yes. Let me just take the first line from your mail (which ends
in "scriobh Dr Rainer Woitok:"). It more or less looks like garbage in
my XEmacs:
Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mà Aibreán, scrÃobh Dr Rainer Woitok:
But, oddly, when I hit "reply" it looks quite ok as can be seen above.
To show you what I mean:
$ # Processing the "garbage" from your mail:
$ echo 'Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mà Aibreán, scrÃobh Dr Rainer Woitok:'| od
-A d -t x1a
0000000 41 72 20 61 6e 20 74 2d 61 6f 6e c3 83 c2 ba 20
A r sp a n sp t - a o n C etx B : sp
0000016 6c c3 83 c2 a1 20 64 c3 83 c2 a9 61 67 20 64 65
l C etx B ! sp d C etx B ) a g sp d e
0000032 20 6d c3 83 c2 ad 20 41 69 62 72 65 c3 83 c2 a1
sp m C etx B - sp A i b r e C etx B !
0000048 6e 2c 20 73 63 72 c3 83 c2 ad 6f 62 68 20 44 72
n , sp s c r C etx B - o b h sp D r
0000064 20 52 61 69 6e 65 72 20 57 6f 69 74 6f 6b 3a 0a
sp R a i n e r sp W o i t o k : nl
0000080
$ # Processing the "auto-converted" line in my reply mail:
$ echo 'Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Aibreán, scríobh Dr Rainer Woitok:' | od -A d
-t x1a
0000000 41 72 20 61 6e 20 74 2d 61 6f 6e c3 ba 20 6c c3
A r sp a n sp t - a o n C : sp l C
0000016 a1 20 64 c3 a9 61 67 20 64 65 20 6d c3 ad 20 41
! sp d C ) a g sp d e sp m C - sp A
0000032 69 62 72 65 c3 a1 6e 2c 20 73 63 72 c3 ad 6f 62
i b r e C ! n , sp s c r C - o b
0000048 68 20 44 72 20 52 61 69 6e 65 72 20 57 6f 69 74
h sp D r sp R a i n e r sp W o i t
0000064 6f 6b 3a 0a
o k : nl
0000068
$
Of course that's not a life-threatening problem, in paticular if you do
not understand that language anyway, it's not THAT important to see the
correct glyphs :-)
So ok, I'll postpone that until I find the time to install my own XEmacs
21.5.
Sincerely,
Rainer