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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: utf7 [sigh]
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 04:12:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilusmmd1zaj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ekxxka0p.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (James H. Cloos, Jr.'s message of "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:43:34 -0400")

"James H.Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> I've been seeing a lot of gibberish in posts on some lists of late.
> Turns out they are posted in utf-7....
>
> 5.10.2 has a utf7.el, but it seems to be imap-specific -- and even
> shows a difference between its output and iconv(1)'s....  
>
> Or is that between mule's utf7.el's output and iconv(1)'s???

The old utf7.el only handled ISO-8859-1, I think, which might explain
the differences.

> Anyway, iconv does decode the articles in question, so what do I need
> to get gnus to do so on its own?

A recent Emacs?  I think recent emacsen support UTF-7 directly.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01  1:43 James H.Cloos Jr.
2003-10-01  2:12 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-10-03 18:32   ` Reiner Steib

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