From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75448 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir and character encodings? Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:09:06 -0500 Message-ID: <874o9zjrbh.fsf@andy.bu.edu> References: <87fwtjjrqy.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293455379 5130 80.91.229.12 (27 Dec 2010 13:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:09:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23800@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 27 14:09:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpS-0004BN-SU for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpG-0006z9-ET; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:09:22 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpF-0006yw-3Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:09:21 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpD-0006I6-T1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:09:20 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpD-0007RG-6l for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:09:19 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXCpD-00045C-0s for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:09:19 +0100 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:09:19 +0100 Original-Received: from cohen by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:09:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:muHi2ZZKVKOnnwIaLmniZiMXl8s= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75448 Archived-At: >>>>> "Andy" == Andrew Cohen writes: [...] Andy> IMAP supports non-ASCII charsets but the protocol is a bit Andy> cumbersome and I haven't implemented it in nnir yet. The Andy> support is also server dependent: the spec says all servers Andy> must support US-ASCII but are not required to support any Andy> other charsets. I have no idea which servers support what at Andy> the moment. Andy> To see if your server supports iso-8859 you can try to use a Andy> raw imap search and append "CHARSET ISO-8859" and see what Andy> happens :) What they hey, I just tried it on my dovecot server and prepending (not appending, my mistake) CHARSET ISO-8859-1 works. Also UTF-8 works. Right now the only way to do this is with raw imap searches (which aren't very different from the little language that nnir implements). I'll think about how/whether to support charsets in some other way as well.