From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings?
Date: 03 Sep 1998 12:27:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigww7lqymp.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jost Krieger's message of "02 Sep 1998 11:49:18 +0200"
Jost Krieger <Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
> > I just read a news article with Latin 1 characters in it with pGnus
> > 0.13 (Emacs 20.3). Latin 1 characters were displayed as \888 octal
> > escapes. The news article didn't have any MIME headers.
>
> So how should gnus know they are Latin1 characters ?
It's a good idea to assume Latin1 when nothing is specified. The
assumption does no harm, and gets things right in most of the cases.
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Those who like sausages, laws, and standards are well advised not to
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-03 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-02 7:33 Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-02 9:49 ` Jost Krieger
1998-09-02 11:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-03 10:15 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <x7soi9yx8s.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 16:47 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <x7k93lw2lm.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 17:22 ` Russ Allbery
1998-09-03 20:48 ` Richard Coleman
1998-09-03 17:35 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-09-03 10:27 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-09-02 10:42 ` jean-luc cassel
1998-09-02 12:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-07 20:15 ` Kai Grossjohann
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