Re: viewing raw article

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>]

"DL" == Dave Love writes:

 >> when i view the raw article using C-u g, gnus used to show 8-bit
 >> characters as \200, etc, but it had changed recently and gnus now
 >> shows such characters as eight-bit-graphic charset which appears
 >> to use the iso8859-1 encoded font.

 DL> Do you really mean \200?  That's not in 8859-1 or
 DL> eight-bit-graphic, though I suppose such a font might have a
 DL> glyph there.  Unless you change the display table, it's displayed
 DL> in octal.

an article may include character \200 (128) in it's body: some
character sets, not based on iso8859-* (e.g. cp866, koi8-r, etc), do
contain characters in the range \200-\237, so \200 is also possible
in the messages, and gnus used to show them as \200.

though, characters in the range \240-\377 occur more often, and these
were previously displayed as e.g. \240, but now they are shown as
latin1 characters when previewing raw article, which is bogus.

 DL> eight-bit-graphic (\240-\377) is displayed with glyphs from your
 DL> default font.  This is bogus, but we couldn't persuade rms to
 DL> change it a while back.  (That's nothing to do with Gnus.)

yes, this is very confusing and bogus.

 DL> (when default-enable-multibyte-characters (dotimes (i 128) (aset
 DL> standard-display-table (+ 128 i) nil)))

hm - this didn't change the way 8-bit characters are shown in raw
articles...

Best,
v.