Re: Mule-UCS, Gnus, and Emacs 21

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> From time to time, I try Mule-UCS (0.84 currently) with Emacs 21 and
> Gnus, but it produces b0rked UTF-8 encoding.  Normally, UTF-8 encoding
> is produced when I respond to an iso-8859-15 posting with iso-8859-1
> characters.  This causes Gnus to select UTF-8 as the encoding for the
> outgoing message, but the result looks as if it UTF-8 encoded twice
> (or so people tell me).
> 
> Has anybody here got any experience with that?  What to do?  Is it a
> general problem with Mule-UCS, or with Gnus, or in the interaction of
> the packages?

FWIW I see the same problem.  I dropped Mule-UCS, it had other
problems for me and didn't seem to work well -- the builtin UTF-8
support in Emacs 21 seems to be enough for what I need, and more
robust as well -- especially after putting

       (set-coding-priority '(coding-category-utf-8))

in my .emacs so it detects Unicode files automagically.

Of course, it would be good if Mule-UCS + Gnus worked better.