From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61148 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Display unknown non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?' Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:58:28 +0200 Organization: Dogs old Dilapidated Message-ID: <877jcjp3ob.fsf@obelix.mork.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129125572 22120 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2005 13:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9681@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 12 15:59:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPh8H-0003BR-Bl for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:59:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EPh8C-0005j6-00; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EPc19-00052e-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EPc11-0005jL-Kk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EPc10-0000gu-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EPbzy-0001rM-Lz for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 148.120.249.183 ([148.120.249.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from bmork by 148.120.249.183 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:30:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.120.249.183 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e+sB4CZFbMVrcTCSfuQqNpr6Ssk= X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61148 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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!