Re: locale ISO-8859-15, UTF-8 and mail...

[fabien@tzone.org (Fabien Niñoles)]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    Kai> fabien@tzone.org (Fabien Niñoles) writes:
    >> My problem is when I try to read mail encoded in ISO-8859-1.
    >> Gnus doesn't seems to recognized them correctly and aren't able
    >> to trancode them to my correct display setting (ISO-8859-15 or
    >> latin-9 if you prefer).  Even "W M c" doesn't wash the mail
    >> correctly: the characters (previously printed as ?) are
    >> correctly replaced but have a \201 before each occurence
    >> (whatever the encoded character is).

    Kai> There is a file latin1-disp.el which can sort of do what you
    Kai> want, but it uses Latin-1 characters instead of Latin-9
    Kai> characters.  So you'd have to make a new version which is
    Kai> very similar but uses Latin-9 characters.  Then you can tell
    Kai> Emacs to display many characters using their Latin-9
    Kai> equivalents.

Done, I send the file to Dave Love (the original maintainer of latin-1)
but, if it works for mostly anything (like this email: ¾), it doesn't
work when I visiting Latin-1 encoded email; or even in mail-headers.

Something like "élève" will go out has "?l?ve", and, if I "C-u W M c
latin-9", it will be "\201él\201ève".  Just watching it with "W M c",
only add \201 before all `?'.  I'm looking for adding a command that
simple (gnus-article-decode-charset nil 'latin-9) and remove all \201, 
but I will frankly prefer to make it works correctly.

hmmm...

I try to isolate the bug a little number and it seems that it's somewhere
in decode-coding-region and/or decode-coding-string (both built-in).
At least, this 

(mm-decode-string "élève" "iso-8859-1") 

replace each accentuated character with the sequence "\216?" and

(mm-decode-string "élève" "iso-8859-15")

simply add \216 front to each accentuated character.

So it seems to me that the only bug is the addition of the \216 (or \201
for decode-region) after the translation of a character...  BTW, I'm on
powerpc, maybe it's relevant (unsigned char and consor bugs...).

Thanks,
Fabien 

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