From: "Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>
Subject: Re: Display unknown non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?'
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:58:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jcjp3ob.fsf@obelix.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9br1vd7d0.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 11 2005, Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> in reaction to Matthias Andree's posting[1]...
>>
>> ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59971 ]
>> | What's up here? Does Gnus lack Windows-1251? If so, why does it not
>> | replace everything by dots, X or ?. If it supports Windows-1251, why
>> | doesn't it see it? [...] (Emacs 21.3 with rm'd movemail)
>> `----
>>
>> ... I added `mm-charset-eval-alist' to the trunk now.
>
> While at it...
> | If so, why does it not replace everything by dots, X or ?.
>
> I.e. if the charset is not available: How can we configure Gnus to
> display every non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?'?
This is a violation of RFC2049, which gives the following criteria for
a MIME-conformant MUA:
-- Treat material in an unknown character set as if it were
"application/octet-stream".
Bjørn
--
Unpleasant feminist arsehole!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-12 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-11 21:52 Setup additional charsets on demand Reiner Steib
2005-10-11 22:19 ` Display unknown non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?' (was: Setup additional charsets on demand) Reiner Steib
2005-10-12 7:58 ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2005-10-13 20:39 ` Display unknown non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?' Reiner Steib
2005-10-14 6:38 ` Bjørn Mork
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