Re: octal escapes with rmail [was: Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>   address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:22:43 -0400
> 
> >    P.S.  Would you please fix your MUA to not mangle non-ASCII names of
> >    your correspondents?  They come out as octal escapes, for some
> >    reason.  Maybe it's because your message doesn't state an encoding.
> 
> FWIW, I don't see any octal sequences in Alfred's message (using
> Gnus to read it).

Likely because your locale is UTF-8 (or maybe you are looking at the
wrong message).  Or maybe what you see is one of those old tricks Gnus
had added long ago to "handle" broken emails.

Alfred's messages arrive with the non-ASCII characters in the From
header in UTF-8, but there's no MIME charset header anywhere in sight.
You can download the archived copies of his messages and look at the
mbox file.