From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: escape-quoted
Date: 05 Dec 1998 17:50:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b3e6uw6df.fsf@brandy.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Martin Buchholz's message of "Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:30:45 -0800 (PST)"
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin@xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "Fabrice" == Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ese-metz.fr> writes:
Fabrice> This is the file coding system used by default on the latest
Fabrice> pgnus-0.6[1-3] versions for XEmacs, but it is not defined
Fabrice> unless XEmacs has been compiled with MULE support. Which is
Fabrice> not the case under Win32. What's the proper solution ? Use
Fabrice> 'no-conversion ?
Martin> Normally the only reason to use escape-quoted is because the
Martin> source file contains non-Latin-1 charactrers. Even just a
Martin> Japanese comment or a bogus ESCAPE character will cause
Martin> trouble. There is no reason why the gnus sources need to do
Martin> that.
The reason is to save an unsent (not encoded) message, which may
contain any kind of characters.
--
Shenghuo
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-05 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Shenghuo ZHU's message of "04 Dec 1998 11:31:05 -0500">
1998-12-04 8:56 ` escape-quoted Fabrice POPINEAU
1998-12-04 9:37 ` escape-quoted Andy Piper
1998-12-04 20:16 ` escape-quoted Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-04 14:34 ` escape-quoted Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-04 15:45 ` escape-quoted Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-04 16:38 ` escape-quoted Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-04 18:16 ` escape-quoted Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-04 16:31 ` escape-quoted Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-04 16:38 ` escape-quoted Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-04 16:50 ` escape-quoted Andy Piper
1998-12-04 22:30 ` escape-quoted Martin Buchholz
1998-12-05 22:50 ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
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