From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30552 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problems with 8-bit headers Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:41:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <200005011141.NAA30426@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <2PKD5sdXbG4Y091yn@mimuw.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167072 9102 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, Florian Weimer , Vladimir Volovich Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884D8D051E for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 07:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB29721; Mon, 1 May 2000 06:43:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 01 May 2000 06:42:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA03445 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 06:42:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B534AD051E for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 07:41:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id NAA20616; Mon, 1 May 2000 13:41:16 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA10242; Mon, 1 May 2000 13:41:16 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id NAA30426; Mon, 1 May 2000 13:41:16 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien) In-Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:21:58 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 26 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30552 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30552 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien) writes: > Could you please elaborate? When you save or write a buffer, Emacs > can decide whether the buffer content (e.g. input directly from the > keyboard) can be represented in the default buffer coding system; if > not, Emacs offers the choice of appropriate coding systems.=20=20 If you use the input method `latin-2-prefix' and then type `" a', you'll get a letter which looks like =E4. If you then use the input method `latin-1-prefix' and type `" a', you'll also get a letter which looks like =E4. But these two characters are not the same, as far as Emacs is concerned! Ie, Emacs will not be able to save this file as either Latin-1 or Latin-2. It has been decided to use Unicode as the internal character encoding in Emacs (possibly slightly modified to compensate for Han unification). When that happens, the two =E4 characters will be the same (unified), but until then, they are different. At least that's my understanding of the whole issue. kai --=20 Beware of flying birch trees.