Re: Changing charset for posting news

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, kehoea@parhasard.net wrote:

> Ar an dara lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh David Sumbler: 
> 
>  > Strange: I have tried this, having commented out in .gnus the lines
>  > suggested by Aidan, and it doesn't work!  Despite having specified
>  > iso-8859-1, as you suggest, messages I send to the fr.test group still
>  > are sent as UTF-8 and quoted printable.
> 
> That’s a bug that some changes I made tickled, according to this mail:
> 
> http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200505/msg00121.html
> 
> But I’ve looked into this some more, and, well, the design of that code is
> hugely broken--loads of programming using and endorsing underdocumented
> dynamic binding, crazy return values--and I haven’t seen an example where
> setting mm-coding-system-priorities appropriately is broken. I’ll put
> together a patch removing support for newsgroup-specific character sets if
> this sounds reasonable. 

I think removing features is the wrong way to go, personally.  Setting
the charset per newsgroup is useful.

> If not, I’ll look into adding support for binding message-posting-charset
> around calls to mm-find-charset-region, which should re-add support for the
> charset-per-newsgroup approach. 

If you could do that, it would be great.  I was going to look into it
when I had free time, which will not be soon :) I think it's a
valuable Gnus feature.

Ted