From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47511 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: posting-charset abolition Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:18:48 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4n3cqmy93k.fsf@benko.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036160502 16246 80.91.224.249 (1 Nov 2002 14:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187cg9-0004Du-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:21:41 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 187cgD-0002At-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:21:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:22:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA22851 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:22:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20538 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2002 14:21:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20533 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 14:21:27 -0000 Original-Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (193.162.153.4) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Nov 2002 14:21:27 -0000 Original-Received: from defun.localdomain (0xc3d7608c.esnxr5.ras.tele.dk [195.215.96.140]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22F4264285 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:21:14 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2002 21:33:21 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47511 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47511 Katsumi Yamaoka 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?