From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jon K Hellan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: utf7.el Date: 04 Nov 2001 19:20:57 +0100 Organization: Gnus Information Center Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u1wapfcm.fsf@acm.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175616 30893 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15994 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2001 18:21:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 18:21:47 -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 160RtX-0004Eb-00; Sun, 04 Nov 2001 12:21:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Nov 2001 12:20:59 -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 MAA08285 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:20:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15981 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2001 18:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15976 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2001 18:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 18:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 160RuS-0005Bw-00 for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2001 19:22:16 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ti500710a080-0662.bb.online.no Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1004898136 19944 146.172.46.150 (4 Nov 2001 18:22:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Nov 2001 18:22:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39995 Raymond Scholz writes: > Hi! > > I see utf7.el lying around in the lisp directory. Can this be used > for decoding utf-7 messages without using Mule-UCS? I wrote it to support international characters in IMAP mailbox names. There is a switch to choose between the UTF-7 variant used in mailbox names and the normal UTF-7 used for messages (which is different). When I wrote it, there was no Unicode support in Emacs, so I only implemented conversion to and from iso-8859-1. Integrating with gnus for displaying message is probably not hard, but for my part, I don't know exactly how gnus handles character sets. Performance is likely to be poor since this is low level character manipulation written in elisp. That's no problem for mailbox names, but could be for messages. Regards Jon Kåre