Is there an emacs guru amongst the CentOS bretheren who can help me with the following:

Since upgrading from CentOS 5.10, Emacs 21.4.1 and Gnus v5.9.0 to CentOS 6.5, Emacs 23.1.1 and Gnus v5.13 HTML emails are now being renderd in a pretty reasonable way (thanks!), *but* non-breaking-spaces (nbsp's - UTF8 0xC2, 0xA0) and a few other "unusual" characters are always displayed (both in my graphical display and in terminals and PuTTY sessions) as octal bytes (e.g. \302\240) instead of being renderd as glyphs.

Why?

Is it to do with the locale? That says:

$ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF_8 LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL=

Something in Gnus. Something in emacs? Is it something else?

If I make a file and insert UTF-8 characters using hexl-mode:

C2 A0 0A C2 A3 0A

I see the correct glyphs (nbsp (an underlined cell) and a pound sign) when I open the file in emacs.

Some clue stick please...

Greetings

Mark