From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71293 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace subst-char-in-region by subst-char-in-region Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:15:08 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874odj844z.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <1284900370-6551-1-git-send-email-julien@danjou.info> <87wrqg52nq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <871v8oiib3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762y0h2ba.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd608f52.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285085972 22708 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2010 16:19:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:19:32 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19666=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 21 18:19:31 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 1Oy5Z2-0007UY-O6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:19:29 +0200 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 1Oy5Z2-0001vS-4I for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy5Yz-0001vC-Rk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy5Yv-00062N-OD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oy5Yv-0007Bl-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:19:21 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy5Yu-0007Qk-WB for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:19:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:19:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dVW+DG56N6jh+oWzqrztpRt4yks= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71293 Archived-At: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:41:54 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> Specifically in your case over a terminal, I think you would have to set >> the visuals to 'ascii since there's no way to tell what characters are >> supported by Putty's font. LMI> No... but it'd be really nice if this could work without any LMI> configuration. I use Gnus under X, under xterm and via putty on my LMI> phone, and Gnus should be usable in all those situations automatically, LMI> without having to do anything in particular. LMI> Perhaps (display-graphic-p) is useful for this? No, you can't ask the terminal what fonts it's using or what characters those fonts cover. But remember that a) visual setting like these are not critical, and b) users may prefer ASCII visuals even if they are Unicode-capable. In fact it's probably best to make the default ASCII only and tell the users about it in the manual. Ted