* Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's)
@ 2003-08-10 12:47 Jesper Harder
2003-08-10 12:57 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-11 12:49 ` Matthias Andree
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Harder @ 2003-08-10 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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If I create a new nnml group with a non-ASCII name:
`G m Ãblegrød RET nnml RET'
The group turns up in the Group buffer like this
ÂÆblegrÂød
The problem is of course that Gnus thinks the name is unibyte (utf-8
specifically).
We could fix it by setting `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' to
nil, but then names of nntp groups which really _are_ unibyte would be
wrong.
I think it's a big mess that the list of newsgroups
(`gnus-newsrc-alist', `gnus-newsrc-hashtb' etc.) can contain a mix of
unibyte and multibyte names. It also breaks `j'
(gnus-group-jump-to-group) in the Group buffer and probably more
stuff.
I don't see any easy solution, though.
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* Re: Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's)
2003-08-10 12:47 Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's) Jesper Harder
@ 2003-08-10 12:57 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-11 12:49 ` Matthias Andree
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From: Simon Josefsson @ 2003-08-10 12:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> If I create a new nnml group with a non-ASCII name:
>
> `G m Ãblegrød RET nnml RET'
>
> The group turns up in the Group buffer like this
>
> ÂÆblegrÂød
>
> The problem is of course that Gnus thinks the name is unibyte (utf-8
> specifically).
>
> We could fix it by setting `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' to
> nil, but then names of nntp groups which really _are_ unibyte would be
> wrong.
>
> I think it's a big mess that the list of newsgroups
> (`gnus-newsrc-alist', `gnus-newsrc-hashtb' etc.) can contain a mix of
> unibyte and multibyte names. It also breaks `j'
> (gnus-group-jump-to-group) in the Group buffer and probably more
> stuff.
>
> I don't see any easy solution, though.
This is probably contentious, but when emacsen support Unicode well
enough, IMHO we should make all Gnus files be UTF-8.
Since, I believe, even emacs HEAD doesn't support Unicode well enough
(it can't transcode double-width Cyrillic to Unicode), I don't expect
this to happen very soon though.
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* Re: Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's)
2003-08-10 12:47 Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's) Jesper Harder
2003-08-10 12:57 ` Simon Josefsson
@ 2003-08-11 12:49 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-11 14:07 ` Matthias Andree
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Andree @ 2003-08-11 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> If I create a new nnml group with a non-ASCII name:
>
> `G m Ãblegrød RET nnml RET'
>
> The group turns up in the Group buffer like this
>
> ÂÆblegrÂød
Similar things happen for nnimap.
--
Matthias Andree
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* Re: Non-ASCII group names is broken (return of the \201's)
2003-08-11 12:49 ` Matthias Andree
@ 2003-08-11 14:07 ` Matthias Andree
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Andree @ 2003-08-11 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
[...quote...]
> Similar things happen for nnimap.
Interestingly, the previous (quoted) message confuses the whatever out
of my Gnus/Emacs (21.3). The "Similar things happen for nnimap" line
isn't displayed unless follow up or press "C-u g", so it appears I just
quoted and added the signature without adding my comment, which isn't
the case.
--
Matthias Andree
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