From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: Re: Why is UTF-8 subject base64 encoded? (ä)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9yd6dy73mj.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u65jqmlff.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de>
Hi,
>>>>> In <u65jqmlff.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de>
>>>>> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> wrote:
> Hi
> I've told Gnus to use UTF-8 whenever I send a message which contains
> non-ASCII characters by saying
> (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(mule-utf-8))
> in .gnus.
> However, there's one problem: Gnus now always uses base64 instead of
> quoted printable to encode 8bit characters in the subject and other
> headers. Is this a bug or wanted behavior?
rfc2047.el uses B encoding by default for the UTF-8 charset.
You can alter the behavior as following:
(eval-after-load "rfc2047"
'(push '(utf-8 . Q) rfc2047-charset-encoding-alist))
I don't know whether that's a right thing, though.
--
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 10:37 Frank Schmitt
2003-09-18 11:11 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2003-09-18 12:39 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-09-18 16:04 ` Florian Weimer
2003-10-17 17:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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