Re: More charset things

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > > That's not my table.  :-) When MULE supports utf-8, Gnus will
> > > support utf-8.

> > That is not a nice way of thinking.

> I don't see any other way of thinking.  Grokking utf-8 is way outside
> the scope of Gnus -- it has to be an Emacs thing.

In a way, UTF-8 or Base64 are coding schemes.  I see no strong reason for
Gnus to be favourable to one without being to the other, except maybe that
Base64 is usable in CTE, while UTF-8 is probably not going to be.

UTF-8 is really simple, by comparison with other things in the field of
charsets, and much more simple that what Gnus already does about the whole
thing.  Lars, I can send you documentation and C code, if you feel like it.

> Could that someone (or someone else) re-recommend the book(s) that I
> should buy to get both an introduction and more in-depth knowledge about
> charset issues?

*The* reference, which I never seen (my librarian says the editor is out
of stock), is supposed to be the Ken Lunde book, in the ORA series.

  From: Brendan_Murray/DUB/Lotus@lotus.com
  Subject: Re: unicode <-> hex converter (fwd)
  To: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA
  Date: 1997-04-11 09:38:40 +01:00

  For information on Asian character sets, try picking up a copy of Ken
  Lunde's text for his next book. It should be on
  ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf. His first book,
  "Understanding Japanese Information Processing" is so good that it has been
  translated to Japanese, and is used over there by many developers (one of
  the guys in our Tokyo office thought Ken Lunde was Japanese - that's how
  good it is!) - if you're doing anything with the Japanese encoding systems,
  I heartily recommend this.

  By the way, you'll find code snippets sprinkled around that part of the FTP
  site, with different encoding transformations.

  Brendan

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