From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: charset=X-UNKNOWN
Date: 25 Sep 1999 11:40:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9jn49cu.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder's message of "19 Sep 1999 07:06:02 +0200"
Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:
> Pine users have the habit to send messages with such header lines:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-UNKNOWN
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> But if you've a cloaser look at the message body, you'll notice that the
> mail actually is written as:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
You could define "x-unknown" as a synonym for "iso-8859-1" in
`mm-charset-synonym-alist'.
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Unfortunately, Gnus obeys the original haeader lines and displays
> special characters (umlauts, accented characters) in the backslashed
> notation ;-(
>
> It there an easy way to tell Emacs 20.4 with PGnus 0.95, to be a little
> bit smarter (display 8bit as 8bit)?
But it can't possibly guess that a CTE that says that it is qp is
really something else.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-25 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-19 5:06 charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-25 9:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-09-25 13:51 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-25 22:53 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-26 6:15 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Karl Eichwalder
1999-09-26 16:25 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-27 17:39 ` charset=X-UNKNOWN Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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