Re: bug in v5.10.2: gnus-group-charset-alist is ignored for some

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>]

"VK" == Vasily Korytov writes:

 VK> On Sat, 03 May 2003 19:27:12 +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
 >> (eval-after-load "gnus-sum" '(setq gnus-group-charset-alist
 >> (append (delete '(".*" iso-8859-1) gnus-group-charset-alist)
 >> '((".*" koi8-r)))))

 VK> FYI, there's no ".*" value in gnus-group-charset-alist as of Oort
 VK> (IMHO, you should'n touch it at all in your case). There is
 VK> gnus-default-charset, and it's much more easier to tweak. =))

 >> i think that gnus somehow tries to detect the charset of the
 >> message body

 VK> Gnus, not Emacs? Are you sure?

 VK> (Anyway, I'm unable to reproduce this problem on XEmacs/non-MULE
 VK> -- you can guess, why. =)

 >> (and the body contains some character unencodable in koi8-r which
 >> makes it think that this is iso-8859-1)

 VK> The message is correct KOI-8, BTW.

there was indeed a bug in gnus - ant it was fixed by Jesper Harder:

2003-05-03  Jesper Harder  <harder@ifa.au.dk>
 
        * gnus.el: Don't test for `mm-guess-mime-charset'.
 
        * mm-util.el (mm-guess-mime-charset): Remove.  Not used any more.
 
        * gnus.el (gnus-default-charset): Set default value to
        `undecided'.
 
        * gnus-art.el (article-decode-charset): Don't supply 4th arg to
        mm-decode-body.
 
        * mm-bodies.el (mm-decode-coding-region-safely): Remove.
        (mm-decode-body): Don't use mm-decode-coding-region-safely.

Best,
v.