Re: naive charset question

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> I found it!  An old part of my .emacs code invoked
>
>   (standard-display-european 1)
>
> which is described as
>
>     Semi-obsolete way to toggle display of ISO 8859 European characters...
>
> but in fact appears to be actively detrimental in some cases.

Yup.  Should Gnus make an effort to work in this case?  Ideally Gnus
should make sure all buffers it uses has the correct unibyte status
needed for its operation, or operate correctly regardless of unibyte
status.  Perhaps Gnus should require non-unibyte Emacs?  But you sort
of get what you asked for if you disable multibyte -- you don't get
any multibytes, even in Gnus.  Perhaps Gnus could fail more gracefully
though.  Hm.

I reported the devanagari problem though, sending the HELLO file using
Gnus is a good regression test and should always work (it does in
Emacs 21.2).  And users should never have to configure anything to get
proper non-ASCII support IMHO.