Re: w3/Gnus/Emacs 20 charset decoding

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> Come to the bleeding edge lars!  20.5.92.9 is the way to go!  Come see the
> violence inherent in the new redisplay. :)

Sounds much too scary.  :-)

> Since I'm in the midst of revamping Emacs/W3 and URL to use your mm and
> mailcap code, you tell me.  Is there anything I can do to make this easier?
> 
> The URL package has always just used the 'binary' method.  Then the w3
> parser and friends use the charsets.

That's the easiest way of all for me.  :-)  I just had to make sure I
was in a unibyte buffer before calling `url-insert-file-contents', and
then everything worked as it should, as if by magic.

> I'm actually going to be looking at how Gnus does
> internationalization, since the way w3 does it sucks.

There are many similarities between a newsreader and a web browser,
these days -- at least, it's the same MIME stuff (charset
specifications, encoding and so on.)

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen