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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: article editing oddity
Date: 15 Nov 1999 21:51:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g0y7mqb3.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3so2cp0i9.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru>

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> i've got a message which was in windows-1251 encoding, but
> Content-Type header said that it was in koi8-r, so the message was
> unreadable.
> 
> I pressed C-u g e, and changed "charset=koi8-r" to
> "charset=windows-1251" in the Content-Type header.
> 
> Then i pressed C-c C-c
> 
> But the saved article still contained "charset=koi8-r" !

Uhm.  `C-c C-c' after editing the message will create brand new
Content-Type headers.  And since Gnus thought that the text was
koi8-r, Gnus put that in the new header.

*sigh*

Anyway, `C-u W M c' will let you re-interpret the message using a
different charset.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-15 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-12  8:39 Vladimir Volovich
1999-11-15 20:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-11-15 21:23   ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-01 14:37     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-01 18:30       ` FAQ: show an article with a specified charset (was: Re: article editing oddity) Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-01 23:00         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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