View articles with different charset (was: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

[ Stripping Cc-s since this isn't directly related to the bug. ]

On Sat, Nov 29 2008, James Cloos wrote:

> But it also must be easy to manually tell it to use some other charset
> when one recognizes the need.  I can use (gnus-article-view-part-as-charset)
> for a mime part (at least w/ Stefan's patch) but haven't managed to make
> that work for a message w/o any attachments or inlines.

Does this help?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Paging the Article") ]
| `A g'
| `g'
|      (Re)fetch the current article (`gnus-summary-show-article').  If
|      given a prefix, fetch the current article, but don't run any of
|      the article treatment functions.  This will give you a "raw"
|      article, just the way it came from the server.
| 
|      If given a numerical prefix, you can do semi-manual charset
|      stuff.  `C-u 0 g cn-gb-2312 RET' will decode the message as if it
|      were encoded in the `cn-gb-2312' charset.  If you have
| 
|           (setq gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist
|                 '((1 . cn-gb-2312)
|                   (2 . big5)))
| 
|      then you can say `C-u 1 g' to get the same effect.
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There should be a better index entry here.  Any ideas for useful index
entries?

@cindex charset, view article with different charset
@cindex view article with different charset

Maybe we should consider to specify a non-nil default for
`gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist' [1].

Bye, Reiner.

[1] I use...

,----[ <f1> v gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist RET ]
| gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist is a variable defined in
| `gnus-sum.el'.  Its value is
| ((12 . windows-1252)
|  (0 . iso-8859-15)
|  (8 . utf-8))
| 
| Documentation:
| Alist of number and charset.
| The article will be shown with the charset corresponding to the
| numbered argument.
| For example: ((1 . cn-gb-2312) (2 . big5)).
| 
| You can customize this variable.
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