From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30738 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: more multibyte bugs Date: 05 May 2000 22:32:46 +0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87itwtrx9h.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167232 10091 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F1ED051E for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 14:35:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB15522; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:35:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 05 May 2000 13:35:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18978 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:35:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from relay2.vsu.ru (mail.vsu.ru [62.76.169.17]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08C5D051E for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 14:34:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id D54821926; Fri, 5 May 2000 22:34:02 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02309; Fri, 5 May 2000 22:32:46 +0400 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Florian Weimer's message of "05 May 2000 14:34:34 +0200" Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30738 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30738 "FW" == Florian Weimer writes: >> In this case, it seems that ALL gnus buffers which are supposed to >> contain arbitrary 8-bit text must be unibyte. FW> If this can't be done (because making a buffer unibyte is some FW> kind of global thing), what do you mean by word "global"? the set-buffer-multibyte function can switch between both modes independently for different buffers. i think that gnus should try to work with unibyte buffers in all cases where the buffer contents is not supposed to contain data in internal mule encoding. FW> one could add a special coding system designed for encoding raw FW> bytes in the range 16#80# .. 16#FF#. how this could be done? Best regards, -- Vladimir. -- COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. Dijkstra