Re: Gnus coming with Emacs 21pre-release: iso-8859-{1,15}

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>]

> From: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
> Date: 27 Jul 2001 20:22:27 +0200
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> > This should IMHO be optional at this time, since Unicode support in
> > the stock Emacs 21 distribution (without add-ons such as Mule-UCS) is
> > limited and incomplete.  For starters, AFAIK, Emacs cannot encode
> > 8859-15 characters as UTF-8 (see the commentary in utf-8.el) unless
> > those characters came from a UTF-8 encoded source to begin with, and
> > thus are stored in the buffer as mule-unicode-NNNN characters.
> 
> Okay, than we've to make sure to add an user option to store 8859-1 and
> 8859-15 (and 8859-2 and 8859-16) reply messages in the buffer as
> mule-unicode-NNNN characters, please.

This is exactly the functionality that Emacs lacks: it cannot convert
between 8859-2 and mule-unicode-NNNN because it thinks these are
different characters; and utf-8.el doesn't support anything beyond
8859-1.  (Also 8859-16 is not supported by Emacs at all, IIRC.)