From: janneke@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: request for plain text mailing howto
Date: 02 Nov 2000 19:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31ywu1b0t.fsf@appel.lilypond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "02 Nov 2000 18:20:43 +0100"
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Did your message contain non-ascii characters? That would cause Gnus
> to use QP or base64 encoding because it assumes that mailers don't
> grok 8bit characters.
19:26:06 appel ~/usr/src/lilypond$ file x
x: International language text
I just used C-x i, but (Arg) my patch wasn't plain ascii. It included
a submission that turned out to use international characters. Now
I'll have to reject the submission :-)
I'm a bit embarrassed for pointing at Gnus first.
> if you are sure that your mailer groks 8bit characters, you can tell
> Gnus to use 8bit encoding for iso-8859-1 text, for example, by setting
> the variable gnus-group-posting-charset-alist appropriately. For
> example:
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-group-posting-charset-alist
> '(message-this-is-mail iso-8859-1 (iso-8859-1)))
> ; header body
Thanks!
Greetings,
Jan.
> --
> I like BOTH kinds of music.
Wow, we typeset both kinds! I guess.
--
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
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2000-11-02 16:36 janneke
2000-11-02 17:20 ` Kai Großjohann
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