From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21200 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Look ma: RFÇ2047 Date: 15 Feb 1999 03:19:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159351 21793 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:15:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA19189 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:20:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB13538; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:19:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:20:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18022 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:20:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (6089@pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA19136 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:19:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (actually pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by pat.uio.no with SMTP (PP); Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:19:17 +0100 Original-Received: from bombur.uio.no ([129.240.186.42]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10CDcy-0006x0-00 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:19:16 +0100 Original-Received: by bombur.uio.no ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:19:16 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:43:14 GMT" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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