Re: utf-8 for decoding mails, but composing eeventually with iso-latin-9

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Oliver Scholz has helped me using utf-8 for displaying / writing utf-8
> mails. For several reasons i want to be able (a) to override the utf-8
> default to something like iso-latin-9, e.g. when writing to people
> using older mailclients. On the other side i want to (b) have
> iso-latin-9 as standard encoding for files, not! utf-8.
>
> I achieved (b) with
>
> ,----[ .emacs.el ]
> | (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> | (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system
> |       (coding-system-change-eol-conversion
> |        'iso-latin-9 ;; default-buffer-file-coding-system
> |        nil))
> `----
>
> Now: How do i achive (a)?

Put <#part charset=iso-8859-9> before the text.

OTOH, you could try

 '(mm-coding-system-priorities (quote (iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9)))

instead of all what you are doing now.  Then you will compose in the
systems' locale but it will be downgraded to latin-1 if possible, or
latin-9 if possible.  No need to specify things manually.

I believe that most europeans are happy with a rule that chosed ASCII
if possible, then the lowest X that makes ISO-8859-X work (which
includes eventually choosing ISO-8859-15 for euro signs), and finally
UTF-8.  I run emacs in an UTF-8 locale and use the above setting, so I
get this algorithm.