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From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: posting-charset abolition
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:18:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7jx4blj.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yotl8z0d8o6m.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2002 21:33:21 +0900")

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Hey Japanese folks, look at this!
>
> In GNUS v3 or v4 era, posting 8-bit news articles was considered
> to be evil in Japanese newsgroups because newsreaders or news
> servers were not supporting it.  Though it won't be in such a
> condition today, 8-bit news articles still tend to be base64
> encoded.  If you don't desire to send 8-bit news articles and
> there is an opportunity of writing katakana-jisx0201 (may be
> called as hankaku-katakana) or any other special characters, the
> following setting is also effective even now:
>
> (eval-after-load "gnus-msg"
>   '(if (boundp 'gnus-group-posting-charset-alist)
>        (let ((news (assq 'message-this-is-news
> 			 gnus-group-posting-charset-alist)))
> 	 (if news
> 	     (setcdr news '(nil nil))))))

I don't grok Japanese charsets.  But if you think it's a good setting,
wouldn't it be better to add this rule to
`gnus-group-posting-charset-alist' for the Japanese news groups?




  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-01 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-30 13:15 Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-31  9:12 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-31 11:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-10-31 12:38   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-31 14:30     ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-11-01  2:43       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-11-01  3:07         ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-11-01  6:51         ` Jesper Harder
2002-11-01  8:20           ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-11-01 12:33             ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-11-01 14:18               ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-11-01 15:54                 ` Katsumi

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