From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64330 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86sldbdc7e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171579159 17644 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2007 22:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 23:39:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHpFq-0002TO-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHpFq-0001rh-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHpFG-0001gf-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHpFF-0001fq-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHpFE-0001fl-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HHpFC-0003jH-RD; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374C62CF2A2; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:26 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439123FE0; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 22CB84C6D25; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 22\:40\:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66437 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64330 Archived-At: > I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale > prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. I believe that in general, if a message *can* be encoded in an 8bit encoding, it's likely that it will be readable by a larger audience than if it is encoded in utf-8. But it's probably too late to change it for Emacs-22. Stefan