Names of topics with ISO 8859-2 characters

Names of topics with ISO 8859-2 characters

[Pavel Janík]

Hi,

you can not create and even rename topic with characters from ISO
8859-2. They will be created, but will be shown with \202 before each ISO
8859-2 character in the Group buffer. The same applies for 5.9.0 and for
Oort from the CVS.

Try this:

LANG=cs_CZ emacs -q

M-x gnus-no-server

M-x gnus-topic-mode

T n ěščřžýáíé RET

The topic is displayed correctly now. Kill gnus, and run it again. The
topic will be displayed with \202 preceding each letter...
-- 
Pavel Janík

Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly
Space Shuttle with no instructions.
                  -- Jeremy Allison in linux-kernel

Re: Names of topics with ISO 8859-2 characters

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> you can not create and even rename topic with characters from ISO
> 8859-2. They will be created, but will be shown with \202 before each ISO
> 8859-2 character in the Group buffer. The same applies for 5.9.0 and for
> Oort from the CVS.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> LANG=cs_CZ emacs -q
> 
> M-x gnus-no-server
> 
> M-x gnus-topic-mode
> 
> T n ěščřžýáíé RET
> 
> The topic is displayed correctly now. Kill gnus, and run it again. The
> topic will be displayed with \202 preceding each letter...

I've fixed it in the Gnus CVS.  Putting (setq
gnus-startup-file-coding-system 'emacs-mule) into .emacs or .gnus may
fix the problem in 5.9.0.  Please test.

ShengHuo

Re: Names of topics with ISO 8859-2 characters

[Roland Mas]

ShengHuo ZHU (2001-07-23 22:00:18 -0700) :

> Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:

[...]

>> The topic is displayed correctly now. Kill gnus, and run it again. The
>> topic will be displayed with \202 preceding each letter...
>
> I've fixed it in the Gnus CVS.  Putting (setq
> gnus-startup-file-coding-system 'emacs-mule) into .emacs or .gnus
> may fix the problem in 5.9.0.  Please test.

I tested it too, since I had the same problem (although for Latin-1).
It works.  Thanks ShengHuo!

  Now I just have to see why my messages posted in UTF-8 are corrupted
before I completely switch over to Emacs 21.  Hm.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
  -- in the tunefs manual page.

Re: Names of topics with ISO 8859-2 characters

[Kai Großjohann]

Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:

>   Now I just have to see why my messages posted in UTF-8 are corrupted
> before I completely switch over to Emacs 21.  Hm.

Does it help to turn off Mule-UCS?  That did the trick for me.  But
others report that Mule-UCS works fine with Emacs 21; I wish I knew
what causes it to work or to fail.

kai
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