From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50685 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorge Godoy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: charset=macintosh Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:47:16 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86k7f9g8sb.fsf@ieee.org> References: <843clxud7u.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047138469 3272 80.91.224.249 (8 Mar 2003 15:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 08 16:47:47 2003 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 18rgY6-0000qZ-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 16:47:47 +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 18rgYD-0001x6-00; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:47:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:48:53 -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 JAA12089 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:48:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 41869 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2003 15:47:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 41864 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2003 15:47:35 -0000 Original-Received: from panda.sul.com.br (HELO ns.sul.com.br) (200.219.150.4) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2003 15:47:35 -0000 Original-Received: from wintermute.g2ctech (2-045.ctame701-5.telepar.net.br [200.181.179.45]) by ns.sul.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h28FicO31856; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:44:42 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from godoy@metalab.unc.edu) Original-Received: by wintermute.g2ctech (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 72729439B; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:47:16 -0300 (BRT) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-URL: Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Disclaimer: Unless explicitly stated, opinions on this message are strictly mine 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50685 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50685 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Jesper Harder 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.