From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to force charset iso-8859-1 when posting?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:31:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4itp9po.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i92n3pb.fsf@dod.no>
On Tue, Sep 23 2008, Steinar Bang wrote:
> Platform: Ubuntu 8.04, Intel Pentium M
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-05-03 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
> No Gnus v0.11 (recent CVS update)
>
> For some reason Gnus have decided to post with utf-8.
Did you change your locale settings?
> I've tried to force iso-8859-1 with the below setting in the
> gnus-parameters variable (I'm trying to force iso-8859-1 for the
> no. news hiearchy).
>
> (setq gnus-parameters '(("^nntp\\+news\\.gmane\\."
> (spam-process
> ((spam spam-use-gmane))))
> ("^no\\."
> (mm-coding-system-priorities
> '(iso-8859-1)))))
Does setting mm-coding-system-priorities globally work?
> So... is there a working way to force the charset when posting, for a
> group or set of groups?
I once added such an example to (info "(emacs-mime)Encoding
Customization"), but Katsumi Yamaoka pointed out some
problems/limitations:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63762>
On Wed, Sep 24 2008, Steinar Bang wrote:
> I've now tried the following in ~/.gnus.el
> (setq message-default-charset 'iso-8859-1)
> But that didn't work either. Gnus still posts with utf-8.
Hardly surprising: "Default charset used in non-MULE Emacsen."
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 17:59 Steinar Bang
2008-09-24 18:33 ` Steinar Bang
2008-09-24 20:31 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-09-26 15:59 ` Steinar Bang
2008-09-26 21:24 ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-27 8:53 ` Steinar Bang
2008-09-28 14:33 ` Steinar Bang
2008-09-28 14:41 ` Steinar Bang
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