From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50518 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: utf-8 for decoding mails, but composing eeventually with iso-latin-9 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:18:13 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84isv0z7vu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046711928 10067 80.91.224.249 (3 Mar 2003 17:18:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ptaM-0002bV-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:18:42 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18ptaH-0000Ts-00; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:18:37 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:19:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA28041 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:19:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1027 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2003 17:18:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1022 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2003 17:18:20 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 3 Mar 2003 17:18:20 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ptsW-0006Dy-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:37:28 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f227.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1046713048 23491 217.81.242.39 (3 Mar 2003 17:37:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2003 17:37:28 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rav76aN4H7DBhNF6TZXhka6eysE= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50518 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50518 Christoph Conrad writes: > Oliver Scholz has helped me using utf-8 for displaying / writing utf-8 > mails. For several reasons i want to be able (a) to override the utf-8 > default to something like iso-latin-9, e.g. when writing to people > using older mailclients. On the other side i want to (b) have > iso-latin-9 as standard encoding for files, not! utf-8. Why not just use the default behavior? I think the default behavior is to use an iso-8859 encoding if possible, and only if that is not possible, use utf-8. That appears to be a very sensible thing to do. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.