From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41960 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smiley problems (and a patch to fix them) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:23:27 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878zb18kgg.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177273 8847 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7422 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 07:25:01 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 07:25:01 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Q1TT-00088b-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:24:07 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:23:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA13750 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:23:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7409 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2002 07:23:51 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7404 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 07:23:51 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (210.23.138.19) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 07:23:51 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [210.23.138.19]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835652A812 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:23:35 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92B4982169; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:23:27 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Wes Hardaker's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:24:28 -0800") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41960 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41960 On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Wes Hardaker wrote: > If you have smileys turned on, but the files aren't where they're > supposed to be you end up getting the smiley replaced by a glyph with > no symbol. To fix this, I wrote the following hack which at least > puts in a textual glyph of the smiley instead. I was going to have it > not put in anything, but the tty display is putting in a glyph (though > why is a good question), so... it's sort of up for debate as to what > the best thing to do is. If it's possible to extract the original text of the smiley from the buffer at this stage, which it /probably/ is, you should put that in as the textual form of the glyph. That way you get a nice picture if they are supported, but the fallback is to the same text... Daniel -- Do not allow your children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. -- Fran Lebowitz, _Social Studies_, 1977