From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Look ma: RFÇ2047
Date: 02 Feb 1999 21:13:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ww20y35n.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of "02 Feb 1999 00:33:26 +0100"
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> Let's see...
> ("^\\(cz\\|hun\\|pl\\|sk\\)\\>" iso-8859-2)
> ("^israel\\>" ???)
Thanks; I've now added these.
> I know Emacs20/MULE has joined "I know better than you what you want"
> Macintosh, but Gnus doesn't *have* to follow their example, you know.
Well, this is only used when reading articles, so getting this wrong
is no catastrophy.
> Use ("^\\(comp\\|rec\\|alt\\|......\\)\\>" iso-8859-1) instead,
> and current-language-environment or whatever for "unkown groups".
> It seems more likely that an "unknown group" which the user is
> interested in will be a local group with the user's normal charset
> than a latin-1 group.
Perhaps. How does one go from `current-language-environment' to
coding system?
> BTW, I don't know if gnus-group-post-charset-alist is a good thing,
> except to choose between several possible encodings of a multibyte
> message. If a user usually posts on his local "latin-2 newsgroups" but
> once in a while post to a "latin-1 newsgroup", messages to the latter
> will most likely contain latin-2 characters. Instead we need a
> recommended way for the user to tell Emacs to switch character set
> (font) - which Gnus can notice.
This variable is only used in non-Mule Emacsen, so this shouldn't occur.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-02 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-15 23:32 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-16 2:01 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-16 3:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-20 21:26 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-20 21:26 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-21 15:55 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-02-01 23:33 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-02 0:51 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-02 0:56 ` Look ma: =?UNKNOWN?Q?RF=C72047?= Chris Tessone
1999-02-02 9:12 ` Look ma: RFÇ2047 Yair Friedman
1999-02-02 20:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-02-15 2:19 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-19 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 16:34 Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-02-21 10:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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