From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Look ma: =?iso-8859-1?q?RF=C72047?= Date: 16 Jan 1999 04:27:02 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158656 17243 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03334 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:41:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB26269; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:41:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:40:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10432 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:40:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp090.uio.no [129.240.240.95]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03060 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:39:52 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA24552; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 04:39:33 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Bill Bryson's _A Walk in the Woods_ X-Now-Playing: Lisa Germano's _Geek the Girl_: "...a psychopath" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of "15 Jan 1999 18:01:06 -0800" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070072 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.72) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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