From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23862 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lconrad@world.std.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: How do I know what charset I used? Date: 05 Jul 1999 12:10:05 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161518 4286 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:51:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11761 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB04952; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:12:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Jul 1999 11:12:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10490 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:12:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from europe.std.com (europe-e.std.com [192.74.137.10]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11454 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:11:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (STD1.2/BZS-8-1.0) id MAA19283; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:11:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from 10.0.2.15 (world.std.com) by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA20248; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 29137 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jul 1999 16:10:06 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #0j-Ll[fajrfupWYMv&wa\m7!Sh=&3;JE-_&M-L,ULz(aE8iu%m1SHa5wG.V{3B:Fdnd/T# O -}0pPGYw%t1z`o&T_c=)p8l[}7R\={[@B*Jyj*.L4 hnJ*AXb User-Agent: Gnus/5.070091 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Original-Lines: 32 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23862 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