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From: Jorge Godoy <godoy@metalab.unc.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: charset=macintosh
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:47:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k7f9g8sb.fsf@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <843clxud7u.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:47:49 +0100")

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>>    Just because you're using UTF-8, mac-roman, EBCDIC or whatever on
>>    your local system doesn't mean that it's a good guess that you'll
>>    receive mail and news using this charset.  
>
> I think this guess is better than no guess at all.
>
> Do you have a better guess?

Isn't it obligatory to fill in the charset at message headers?
Instead of guessing, Gnus should --- I think it already does --- use
this information to choose the charset.

If nothing is filled, them use the locale the use is in and add a
notice that the message has an obligatory information missing.

-- 
Godoy.    <godoy@metalab.unc.edu>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-08 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07 17:39 charset=macintosh Karl Eichwalder
2003-03-07 18:25 ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-07 19:30   ` charset=macintosh Karl Eichwalder
2003-03-07 19:45     ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-07 20:40       ` charset=macintosh Karl Eichwalder
2003-03-07 23:05         ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-08 14:47           ` charset=macintosh Kai Großjohann
2003-03-08 15:47             ` Jorge Godoy [this message]
2003-03-08 15:55               ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-08 19:52                 ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-08 20:09                   ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-08 16:00               ` charset=macintosh Kai Großjohann
2003-03-08 16:47             ` charset=macintosh Frank Schmitt
2003-03-08 19:44               ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-08 19:47             ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-08 20:17               ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-09  3:56                 ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-09 11:48                   ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-14 23:02                     ` charset=macintosh Jesper Harder
2003-03-07 19:47     ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-03-07 21:02   ` charset=macintosh Karl Eichwalder
2003-03-07 21:24     ` charset=macintosh Simon Josefsson
2003-04-01 17:51   ` mm-coding-system-priorities (was: charset=macintosh) Reiner Steib
2003-04-12 19:53     ` mm-coding-system-priorities Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-04-13 20:44       ` mm-coding-system-priorities Reiner Steib
2003-04-15 21:54         ` mm-coding-system-priorities Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-03-08  2:39 ` TeX input method? (Was: charset=macintosh) Jinhyok Heo
2003-03-08  6:33   ` TeX input method? Karl Eichwalder
2003-03-09 17:07 charset=macintosh Jesper Harder

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