From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44682 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: utf-8 -> latin-X if possible Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 17:06:05 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020611292 13560 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2002 15:08:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174NcR-0003Wb-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 17:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 174NbE-0007Pr-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 10:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 05 May 2002 10:07:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA29134 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 10:06:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 2679 invoked by alias); 5 May 2002 15:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2674 invoked from network); 5 May 2002 15:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 May 2002 15:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g45F6FQ4000781; Sun, 5 May 2002 17:06:15 +0200 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sun, 05 May 2002 14:06:56 +0200") Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Economic Science, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44682 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44682 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> I've started to use >> >> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) >> >> since that gives me better utf-8 support in emacs, but it seems Gnus >> start to send messages in utf-8 then. >> >> How do I get Gnus to send it using latin-X, if possible, instead? > > Maybe it works if you frob coding-category-list such that UTF occurs > near the beginning, bug after the Latin-1 stuff. I used to do this, and it worked, but I felt it was kind of gross. > prefer-coding-system seems to do more stuff. Yes. Later I came up with the following which seems a bit more clean. (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-default-coding-systems 'latin-1) I wish all of this stuff were customized.