Re: Changing charset for posting news

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

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, kehoea@parhasard.net wrote:

> Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Ted Zlatanov: 

>  > I think removing features is the wrong way to go, personally.  Setting
>  > the charset per newsgroup is useful.
> 
> Do you use the feature? Since Emacs de-unifies the Han character
> sets, the only people for whom this would be theoretically useful,
> in the presence of a working mm-coding-system-priorities variable
> that chooses the character set based on the message content, would
> be Russian speakers who want to choose between koi8-r and
> windows-1251 for their Russian posts. Are there any such users? (Or
> Bulgarians or Serbs etc. who want to make the same choice, I
> suppose.)

Some groups (Usenet and others) require a certain character set.  I
don't think mm-coding-system-priorities will handle that.  This is not
just for Cyrillic posts.

> Agreed, it does offer a better out-of-the-box experience for
> Cyrillic users; but changing the default value of
> mm-coding-system-priorities based on language environment would
> achieve the same thing, I think.

Would it work, then, to connect the per-group charset parameter with code
that uses it to set the mm-coding-system-priorities on group entry?  I
think that's what you were suggesting as well.

> And it’s horrible, horrible code :-) . 

Simplifying or eliminating bad code is definitely a worthy goal.  I
just think the feature is valuable.

Ted