Re: multiple charsets handling in gnus

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

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   From: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)
   Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:27:17 +0200

   >    > * Near the end of my ~/.gnus, I inserted the following lines:
   >    > (require 'mm-util)
   >    > (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist '(windows-1251 . cp1251))
   > 
   > What about adding this to Gnus directly? There is already this code:
   > 
   >     ,(unless (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-1252)	; should be defined eventually
   >        '(windows-1252 . iso-8859-1))
   > 
   > so we can extend this to have also 1251 together with 1250. I too have this
   > in my ~/.gnus to be able to read e-mails written on Windows:
   > 
   > ;; Support for Windows-1250
   > (require 'mm-util)
   > (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist '(windows-1250 . cp1250))
   > 
   > I hope that I'll be able to remove that from my .gnus soon :-)

Please apply the following patch. I thing Kai will immediately send his
one ;-)

2001-09-12  Pavel Janík  <Pavel@Janik.cz>

	* mm-util.el (mm-charset-synonym-alist): add windows-1250 so we
	can read e-mails from Microsoft Outlook users not using ISO
	8859-2 character set.


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diff -ur gnus.orig/lisp/ChangeLog gnus/lisp/ChangeLog
--- gnus.orig/lisp/ChangeLog	Wed Sep 12 20:57:00 2001
+++ gnus/lisp/ChangeLog	Wed Sep 12 21:11:36 2001
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-09-12  Pavel Janík  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+
+	* mm-util.el (mm-charset-synonym-alist): add windows-1250 so we
+	can read e-mails from Microsoft Outlook users not using ISO
+	8859-2 character set.
+
 2001-09-12  Didier Verna  <didier@xemacs.org>
 
 	* nndiary.el: new version (0.2-b13).
diff -ur gnus.orig/lisp/mm-util.el gnus/lisp/mm-util.el
--- gnus.orig/lisp/mm-util.el	Wed Sep 12 20:57:00 2001
+++ gnus/lisp/mm-util.el	Wed Sep 12 21:09:59 2001
@@ -166,6 +166,11 @@
     ;; `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map'.
     ,(unless (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-1252)	; should be defined eventually
        '(windows-1252 . iso-8859-1))
+    ;; Windows-1250 is a variant of Latin-2 heavily used by Microsoft
+    ;; Outlook users in Czech republic. Use this to allow reading of their
+    ;; e-mails. cp1250 should be defined by M-x codepage-setup.
+    ,(unless (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-1250)	; should be defined eventually
+       '(windows-1250 . cp1250))
     (x-ctext . ctext))
   "A mapping from invalid charset names to the real charset names.")
 

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