Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:
>> Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>Julien ÉLIE
>>
>>>« Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses :
>>> L'espace d'un matin. »
>>> (François de Malherbe)
>>
>> I've got my terminal emulation xfce4 set to translate UTF-8, and I'm
>> still getting improperly translated or nonprinting characters in your
>> last name and your .sigfile. In all these decades, I've yet to see your
>> name rendered correctly on my terminal emulation.
>>
>> Ã<89>LIE
>>
>> The <89> displays because something didn't translate, and it looks like
>> there are some nonprinting characters in your .sigfile.
>
>The bytes on the wire are C3 89, which is UTF-8 for LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
>E WITH ACUTE. Perhaps your newsreader is misinterpreting it?

My newsreader doesn't interpret anything, leaving it to the terminal
emulation. I know his last name starts with E, but it displays as A with
inverted breve, plus the untranslated <89>.

It doesn't seem to matter what emulation I use.