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?
next prev parent 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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