From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30040 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New error ... missing `char-charset' symbol. Date: 21 Apr 2000 19:16:16 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2n902rx6jv.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <2npuvzk0uv.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> 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 1035166622 6366 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:17:02 +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 AE6C7D051E for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:04:21 -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 MAB25865; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:04:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:03:45 -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 MAA03005 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:03:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304DFD051E for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:03:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA27881 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:05:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 956336743 18892 193.69.4.148 (21 Apr 2000 17:05:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2000 17:05:43 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Sue Garner and Rick Brown's _Still_: "Asphalt Road" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ > You mean my signature? That is nothing but HZ encoded my name. > > It is ASCII. View it by M-x gnus-article-HZ-decode. > > Well, it is ascii in the same way that a uuencoded jpeg is ascii :-) > What I was getting at is that nothing in your messages gives a hint as > to what should be done with your signature. Do you think it would be > useful to add some MIME header for this, or do you think that people > who don't know what to do with it won't be able to make use of it > anyway? (For example, I didn't know what to do, and you told me, but > that doesn't really help much because while your HZ-decoded name is > much prettier, I can't read it either :-) HZ encoding (like ~{VlJ$;p~}) is something that's not part of the MIME continuum, but rather something that was developed much earlier. It's documented in RFC1843, and it's a different way to encode Chinese text in ASCII. HZ is a 7-bit data format proposed for arbitrarily mixed GB and ASCII text file exchange. HZ is also intended for the design of terminal emulators that display and edit mixed Chinese and ASCII text files in real time. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen