Re: KOI8 in pgnus

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>]

"SP" == Sergei Pokrovsky writes:

 SP> I've got no answer to my posting with the Subject: charset for
 SP> sending mail of 15 Nov 1999, Message-ID:
 SP> <uud7tcuqx6.fsf@nbsp.nsk.su>; yet it is important for me to
 SP> decide whether pgnus is a suitable mail tool for Russian.

 SP> So far I was unable to send a message in koi8-r from pgnus.  I
 SP> can post in iso-8859-* as I expect; but everything that I send in
 SP> koi8-r comes in iso-8859-5 (this message is an example).

 SP> Rmail with MULE does it as expected.

 SP> Can anyone send a koi8-r message from pgnus?

 SP> Is really so unimportant that pgnus fails to support the encoding
 SP> which is standard for e-mail in Russia?

Do you read this mailing list? :) Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru>
asked the same question on 12 Nov 1999 (see <5779.991112@nstl.nnov.ru>)
and i already answered it (see <m3aeogyk4l.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru>).

Yes, pgnus IS a suitable mail tool for Russian. It already supports
koi8-r and ALL other possible charsets: the support is quite generic,
and not gnus-specific.

For example, this message sent from pgnus, comes in koi8-r.

To send messages in Russian in koi8-r instead of iso-8859-5, put the
following magic line into your ~/.emacs (or ~/.gnus) file:

(put-charset-property 'cyrillic-iso8859-5 'prefered-coding-system 'koi8-r)

 SP> Test koi8: проба

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.