gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes breaks russian

gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes breaks russian

[John H Palmieri]

GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27
1998 on darwin

Pterodactyl Gnus v0.63

Until today, I couldn't read Russian characters in gnus, and I just
figured out the reason: I had gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes in my
gnus-article-display-hook.  Is this a bug or something about GNU Emacs
Mule support that can't be avoided?

(gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes also breaks Czech, Polish, Slovak,
Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, GB, JIS, KSC, and the 'test of JISX0212',
at least as far as the Hello file goes.)

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John H. Palmieri
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Re: gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes breaks russian

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:

> Until today, I couldn't read Russian characters in gnus, and I just
> figured out the reason: I had gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes in my
> gnus-article-display-hook.  Is this a bug or something about GNU Emacs
> Mule support that can't be avoided?

It's neither.  That command guesses whether something is a MS
smartquote and translates based on that guess.  So having the function 
in you display hook is not a good idea.

I've now made a note of this in the documentation.

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