From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: charset ANSI_x3.4-1968, et al
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:43:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkhtwrm2.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <quack.20070318T1702.lthtzwiyuac@roar.cs.berkeley.edu> (Karl Chen's message of "Sun\, 18 Mar 2007 17\:02\:51 -0700")
Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Reiner> If adding such a list it useful, I'd suggest to add it
> Reiner> in variable, say `mm-charset-ascii-synonym-list'...
>
> Good point; I only sent a single list, but if you wanted to go all
> the way you could do a whole alist of synonym lists, per the IANA
> list.
I don't think that is a good idea -- let's add "bugfix" aliases on a
need-to-have basis judging from bug reports.
> If it's true that these aliases aren't officially required to be
> accepted in MIME then it would also be okay to just have the few
> most popular US-ASCII aliases, e.g. ANSI_x3.4-1968 and
> ANSI_x3.4-1986.
Yup.
I looked at a cleaner way to solve this. Can you test the patch
below?
/Simon
--- mm-util.el 24 Jan 2007 11:48:30 +0100 7.62
+++ mm-util.el 19 Mar 2007 09:42:14 +0100
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@
(defcustom mm-charset-override-alist
'((iso-8859-1 . windows-1252)
(iso-8859-8 . windows-1255)
- (iso-8859-9 . windows-1254))
+ (iso-8859-9 . windows-1254)
+ (ansi_x3.4-1968 . us-ascii))
"A mapping from undesired charset names to their replacement.
You may add pairs like (iso-8859-1 . windows-1252) here,
@@ -357,6 +358,7 @@
(const (iso-8859-1 . windows-1252))
(const (iso-8859-8 . windows-1255))
(const (iso-8859-9 . windows-1254))
+ (const (ansi_x3.4-1968 . us-ascii))
(const (undecided . windows-1252)))
(repeat :inline t
:tag "Other options"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-18 1:41 Karl Chen
2007-03-18 19:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-03-18 22:54 ` Reiner Steib
2007-03-19 0:02 ` Karl Chen
2007-03-19 8:43 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2007-03-20 7:50 ` Karl Chen
2007-03-20 8:35 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-03-21 4:06 ` Karl Chen
2007-03-18 23:57 ` Karl Chen
2007-03-19 8:45 ` Simon Josefsson
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