Re: Look ma: RFÇ2047

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Macintosh, but Gnus doesn't *have* to follow their example, you know.
> 
> Well, this is only used when reading articles, so getting this wrong
> is no catastrophy.

Sure, but not getting it wrong is still better...  If I have already
_told_ Emacs which charset I'm using, why should Gnus override that?

> How does one go from `current-language-environment' to coding system?

I think one asks on gnu.emacs.help :-)

>> BTW, I don't know if gnus-group-post-charset-alist is a good thing,
>> except to choose between several possible encodings of a multibyte
>> message.  If a user usually posts on his local "latin-2 newsgroups" but
>> once in a while post to a "latin-1 newsgroup", messages to the latter
>> will most likely contain latin-2 characters.

This point is independent of whether or not Mule is in use, so...

>> Instead we need a
>> recommended way for the user to tell Emacs to switch character set
>> (font) - which Gnus can notice.
>
> This variable is only used in non-Mule Emacsen, so this shouldn't occur.

that's what I mean: Even non-Mule Emacsen need that recommended way to
switch character set.  Or at least to tell Gnus which character set is
in use.  On non-Mule, that'd be something with set-default-font & co.

-- 
Hallvard