From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28286 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist Date: 14 Dec 1999 21:56:55 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87so15xmug.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> References: <87ogbwjtpw.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165162 29098 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57E7D051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:43:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB10825; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:39:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:39:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15167 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:39:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.cid.net (cephyr.cid.net [195.35.45.193]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB860D051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:39:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from uucp by mail.cid.net (Exim 3.03) with local-bsmtp id 11y8br-0004vx-00; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from deneb.cygnus.argh.org ([192.168.1.2] ident=root) by cygnus.argh.org with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11xz8T-0000fi-00 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:05:29 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.cygnus.argh.org with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11xz0C-0000oC-00 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:56:56 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: smarkacz@anathema.eu.org's message of "14 Dec 1999 21:18:44 +0100" Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28286 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28286 smarkacz@anathema.eu.org (smarkacz) writes: > FW> Most of the wannabe newsreaders don't handle QP either. IMHO, > FW> undeclared 8-bit characters are still less problematic. > > How do you know whether these undeclared characters are Latin1, Latin2, > Windows1250 (yuck) or any other coding system? That's no problem as long as both ends agree which charset to use. Summarizing the discussions, such an agreement does exist for dk.*, fr.*, and no.*, but not for de.* (after all, we are Germans, and it's more important to follow the wording of the RFCs than to have a working solution ;). Of course, in general, you are right. There isn't any agreement, and that's why you should use MIME.