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From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: charset=X-UNKNOWN
Date: 25 Sep 1999 18:53:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5br9jmli1l.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Sep 1999 11:40:49 +0200"

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LMI> Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:
>> Pine users have the habit to send messages with such header lines:
>> 
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-UNKNOWN
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> 
>> But if you've a cloaser look at the message body, you'll notice that the
>> mail actually is written as:
>> 
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

LMI> You could define "x-unknown" as a synonym for "iso-8859-1" in
LMI> `mm-charset-synonym-alist'. 

It would be better to put 'x-unknown in `gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets'.  
Let Gnus "guess" the actual charset.

(setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets (cons 'x-unknown
        gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets))

-- 
Shenghuo ZHU


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-25 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-19  5:06 charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-25  9:40 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-25 13:51   ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-25 22:53   ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
1999-09-26  6:15     ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-26 16:25       ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-27 17:39         ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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