From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53699 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: documentation of gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes outdated? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:27:07 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87znigdhpa.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060788520 12881 80.91.224.253 (13 Aug 2003 15:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2243@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 13 17:28:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mxYE-0007OQ-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19mxXI-0003z7-00; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19mxXE-0003z2-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 28167 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28162 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO mail.epost.de) (193.28.100.167) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3F3895AF0001F110; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:27:18 +0200 Original-To: reiner.steib@gmx.de In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:09:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53699 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53699 Hi Reiner, Dan, Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: > - I guess most (or all?) chars from `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' are > `windows-1252' characters, not present in Latin-1. `windows-1252' > is a registered[1] charset. So the real problem is that some > Windows clients send `windows-1252' labeled as `iso-8859-1'. See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-04/msg00177.html and the discussion around that. I than wrote: > That's almost always cp1252, often mislabeled as iso-8859-1 or > us-ascii, or even unlabeled. I use these settings in GNUS to cope: > > (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets > '(unknown-8bit x-unknown us-ascii iso-8859-1)) > (setq gnus-default-charset 'cp1252) > > I.e. I disable using the MIME parameters for us-ascii and iso-8859-1 > and set the default to cp1252 instead. This has worked fine so far > for me. Real us-ascii or iso-8859-1 messages don't have a problem > with this, as cp1252 is a proper superset of iso-8859-1. benny