From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Have Emacs guess the charset?
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:41:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hev3dbow.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafelslc05z.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Sometimes I get email which has no predeclared charset. Emacs assumes
> Latin-1 in those cases. This is good in general. But is there a way
> to have Emacs inspect the current message and suggest a better
> charset?
>
> In particular, I sometimes know there is Chinese in it, but I don't
> know if it's GB or Big5 encoded. So I try both until I see a
> character I recognize. Is there a way to have Emacs/Gnus guess
> whether it's GB or Big5?
Surely there must be some Mule functions for guessing what charset
some text is in, but I have no idea what it's called. Anybody?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-19 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-15 14:01 Kai Großjohann
2001-08-19 20:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2001-08-19 23:46 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 0:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 1:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 6:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 7:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 8:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 9:13 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 10:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 9:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-20 10:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-09-01 16:32 ` Dave Love
2001-08-21 0:07 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-08-21 21:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-09-01 16:32 ` Dave Love
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