From: lconrad@world.std.com
Subject: How do I know what charset I used?
Date: 05 Jul 1999 12:10:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9mn3wo2.fsf@serpent.local> (raw)
I have a Norwegian email correspondent, and we sometimes use words
with Norwegian characters. For instance, the name of the town he
lives in is Bodx.
When I send these messages, gnus asks me "Character set used in the
article:". If I hit space, it gives me the choices:
Possible completions are:
cn-big5 iso-2022-int-1 iso-8859-3 iso-8859-8 us-ascii
cn-gb-2312 iso-2022-jp iso-8859-4 iso-8859-9 viscii
euc-kr iso-2022-jp-2 iso-8859-5 koi8-r
iso-2022-7bit iso-8859-1 iso-8859-6 thai-tis620
iso-2022-int-1 iso-8859-2 iso-8859-7 tibetan
There is no indication that there's a default, and the plethora of
choices makes me insecure.
I usually guess something with iso in the name, since if I write the
word, I am using iso-accents-mode in gnus. If the word is in a reply
because he typed it in his message, I have no idea what character set
he used.
The characters seem to get transmitted right, even with my wild
guesses, so is this question really necessary? If so, can there be
some documentation about what the right answer might be? And maybe a
default, for people who know as little as I do about character
encoding?
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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1999-07-05 16:10 lconrad [this message]
1999-07-08 6:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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