From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50671 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: charset=macintosh Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:24:59 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047072328 17703 80.91.224.249 (7 Mar 2003 21:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Fri Mar 07 22:25:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rPLK-0004bN-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:25:26 +0100 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 18rPLH-0007mM-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:25:23 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:26:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA10388 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:26:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4580 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2003 21:25:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4575 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 21:25:06 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 21:25:06 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h27LOxVW030793 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:25:00 +0100 Original-To: Karl Eichwalder Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030307:keichwa@gmx.net:b0db40691347bf45 X-Hashcash: 0:030307:keichwa@gmx.net:b0db40691347bf45 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030307:ding@gnus.org:e0993af197a797f2 X-Hashcash: 0:030307:ding@gnus.org:e0993af197a797f2 In-Reply-To: (Karl Eichwalder's message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:02:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50671 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50671 Karl Eichwalder writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> On decoding it should be smarter since non-ASCII and non-UTF-8 texts >> typically is invalid UTF-8, so it is possible to detect and recover. >> I posted some tests to gnus.test on quimby and they don't work well. >> If the emacs mule engine handles the magic, it should be simple to >> make Gnus do the right thing, otherwise it might require some work. >> >> Maybe a mm-decoding-system-priorities. Hm. > > Yes. Below de.* for most cases ISO-8859-1 schould work, some postings > will require ISO-8859-15 and cp-1252. Heuristically deciding between those is more difficult than for UTF-8, so `1 g' (Article -> Display -> View as different encoding), or setting up the coding priorities in emacs the way you want, is probably the only solution.