Re: quoted-printable no-go in news?

[Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> FWIW, the umlauts are displayed correctly for me.  That's because I'm
> using a Latin-1 locale, while you're probably using UTF-8.

My locale is

LANG=de_DE@euro

Which looks pretty much like Latin-9 (iso-8859-15).

> Here's what happens:
>
> * Gnus detects that the message can't possibly be encoded in Latin-1 as
>   advertised in the header (because \200 is not a valid character in
>   Latin-1).

This would also apply to Latin-9.

> * It then uses Emacs' charset detection functions to determine the
>   charset.  By default, Emacs doesn't know about windows-1252, so it
>   isn't detected correctly, and the text is decoded as something else.

It must have guessed some other charset that doesn't map \200 then. How
do I ask it which character set it thinks it is again?

> The real way to solve it is to teach Emacs about windows-1252.  That's
> possible with `code-pages.el' in CVS Emacs.  With this package loaded
> and configured, the €'s are displayed correctly and converted to a
> proper charset when you reply.

can I just steal that from CVS and stuff it into my 21.3 emacs? Or
should I go for CVS? (BTW, is CVS emacs fast enough? 21.2/21.3 are _way_
slower than 21.1 was).

> If you're not using code-pages.el, then it's probably better to use the
> declared charset unconditionally, since the most common case of wrong
> charset declaration is presumeably windows-125x vs. iso-8859-x.
>
> I've changed the code to skip the auto detection if a charset was
> declared in the headers and `code-pages' hasn't been loaded.

Thanks.

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Matthias Andree