From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Look ma: RFÇ2047
Date: 16 Jan 1999 04:27:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d84fucc9.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of "15 Jan 1999 18:01:06 -0800"
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> > That is, default all "unknown" hierarchies to iso-8859-1, but, er, I
> > don't know...
>
> I think that's more likely to be right than most other choices. Not sure
> what else you would default it to? The only other obvious choice in the
> current environment would be something like us-ascii, and since iso-8859-1
> is a superset....
If we default to us-ascii, then 8-bit characters will be displayed as
\245. This will be wrong, but at least it will be equally wrong for
everybody on the entire planet. :-)
But even though this has a certain jennesequa, I think it's more
practical to default to iso-8859-1, since this is the solution that
will be correct for most people, since most people who post without a
charset parameter are people who post using iso-8859-1, recent
psychic statistics have shown.
So I'll default to iso-8859-1 when reading.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-16 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-15 23:32 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-16 2:01 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-16 3:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-01-20 21:26 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-20 21:26 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-21 15:55 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-02-01 23:33 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-02 0:51 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-02 0:56 ` Look ma: =?UNKNOWN?Q?RF=C72047?= Chris Tessone
1999-02-02 9:12 ` Look ma: RFÇ2047 Yair Friedman
1999-02-02 20:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-15 2:19 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-19 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 16:34 Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-21 10:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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