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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: mm-util.el should know as many charsets as iconv
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:46:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FsL0z-0004bV-5S@jidanni1> (raw)

In the buffer *Messages* I have painstakingly traced the non "$0"
prefixed message "Unknown charset: windows-874" to the file
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp/mm-util.el

And how unfair it is that windows-874 is unknown. Compare
$ iconv -l |grep 874|xargs
874// CP874// CSISO153GOST1976874// GOST_1976874// IBM874// WINDOWS-874//

So maybe if mm-util.el doesn't know a charset, perhaps it should
upcase the name, and pass the work over to iconv to give it a try.

OK, I did
(codepage-setup 874)(define-coding-system-alias 'windows-874 'cp874)
like the Info page said. The Info page should say why we must do this
by hand as it is not done automatically for us for all "windows-" sets.

$ man Encode::Supported says for example,
   All cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-* .

(By the way, the characters shown were squares unless I used emacs -nw
or used echo in a shell buffer. Perhaps I don't have a bold Thai font
installed.)



             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19 14:46 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2006-06-19 21:30 ` Reiner Steib

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