From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31128 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: should mbox be opened in unibyte mode Date: 21 May 2000 20:15:04 +0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167573 12295 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:32:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804D2D051F for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:18:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB06251; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:17:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 21 May 2000 11:16:42 -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 LAA08068 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:16:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from relay2.vsu.ru (mail.vsu.ru [62.76.169.17]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD223D0522 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id 9F14219CE; Sun, 21 May 2000 20:16:45 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01041; Sun, 21 May 2000 20:15:04 +0400 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f Original-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien) In-Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl's message of "Sun, 21 May 2000 15:08:05 +0100" Original-Lines: 36 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:31128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31128 "JSB" == Janusz S Bien writes: JSB> It, too, sets `enable-multibyte-characters' to `nil'. JSB> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> i've tried the above settings of nnmbox-file-coding-system and >> nnmbox-active-file-coding-system but nevertheless mbox is still >> opened in multibyte mode (in violation with the above). JSB> Do you use XEmacs or GNU Emacs? This appeared to be relevant. I use GNU Emacs. JSB> You can force (in GNU Emacs) the current buffer to unibyte mode JSB> with `toggle-enable-multibyte-characters'. Does it help? Yes, i can manually switch to unibyte mode in mbox buffer using toggle-enable-multibyte-characters. But: 1) imho it should be done by gnus (i.e. gnus should open mbox in unibyte mode in the first place) 2) you wrote that > In contrast, the coding system `no-conversion' specifies no > character code conversion at all--none for non-ASCII byte values and > none for end of line. This is useful for reading or writing binary > files, tar files, and other files that must be examined verbatim. It, > too, sets `enable-multibyte-characters' to `nil'. is the above about XEmacs or GNU Emacs? If it is about GNU Emacs, then why setting nnmbox-file-coding-system to 'binary does not switch off multibyte characters? Best regards, -- Vladimir.