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From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: non-ascii chars in the Lisp source files
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:01:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u17uuzhk.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9yptiibdby.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:22:57 +0900")

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Can you decode the following morse code using the `W m' key?
> 
> -·-· --·-  -·-· --·-  -·-· --·-  -·· ·  ·--- ·-· ·---- -·-· ·-· -··
> 
> I couldn't.  

I could, with XEmacs and a fairly current CVS Gnus.

I also found that it did hideous things to...

> It is caused by the broken gnus-sum.elc file. Mis-decoding of the
> string "·" which is contained in the gnus-summary-morse-message
> function was occurred when compiling it by XEmacs 21.4 in my system.

...the lines above, because it "decoded" the '-' in
gnus-summary-morse-message.

Maybe it should be enhanced to ignore a '.' or '-' between normal word
constituent characters?

            Daniel


> In that case, buffer-file-coding-system is set to shift_jis when the
> gnus-sum.el file is read.
> 
> It isn't a real problem on me since I seldom use that command
> and changing the LANG environment variable from ja_JP.eucJP to C
> when compiling (or putting the "-*-coding: iso-8859-1;-*-"
> coding cookie in the file) helps it.  However, it is suggested
> that it may cause a serious problem in the future, isn't it?
> The following files also contain non-ascii chars:
> 
> deuglify.el gnus-delay.el gnus-spec.el mml1991.el nnultimate.el
> utf7.el (the last one already contains the coding cookie.)

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03  6:22 Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-03  7:01 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2003-09-03  9:06 ` Robert Epprecht
2003-09-03  7:38   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-03 10:43 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-03 11:20   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-03 12:41     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-03 15:10     ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-04  0:58       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-04 10:13         ` Juha Autero
2003-09-04 11:09           ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-09-05 12:26         ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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