Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> smarkacz@anathema.eu.org (smarkacz) writes:
> 
> > How do you know whether these undeclared characters are Latin1, Latin2,
> > Windows1250 (yuck) or any other coding system?
> 
> Easy, look at the newsgroups header.

That doesn't really work.

Now that I use Gnus with Mule, I have real problems with Croatian
users' broken new agents, which mis-declare Latin 2 articles as Latin
1.  Poor Gnus thinks the message is Latin 1, and renders it that way.
:-(  Unix Slrn/Tin users are especially guilty of this, because many
of them don't bother to setup their newsreaders correctly.  After all,
*their* newsreaders just dump 8bit data to the terminal, which uses
Latin 2 fonts, so *they* see it right.

Crock like Windows-1250 can be handled, but not generally, i.e. such
handling is but a local hack, based on the fact that only two
Croatian-specific characters differ in positions between windows-1250
and Latin 2.  So you can "convert" between the two without loss of
information by swapping the two characters' codes.

It all just sucks.