From: Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr>
Subject: Re: test charset / encoding
Date: 28 Sep 1999 09:54:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qyjbtanh3o3.fsf@metheny.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "27 Sep 1999 20:45:57 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> (mm-find-mime-charset-region (point-min) (point-max))
> => (iso-8859-1)
>
> If not, something is wrong somewhere in the bowels of that function,
> or somewhere in its vicinity.
=> nil
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I've got it. It's the 'enable-multibyte-character under XEmacs problem again.
Now look, this really makes me furious :-( I think I will finally patch XEmacs
to ditch this (*&^@#%^ variable.
The problem: this variable is here (in XEmacs) only for compatibility
with GNU Emacs (ie., just to be bound), but it is *MEANINGLESS*. However, some
code do take it into account which leads to bogus behavior (w3 for instance,
from the picons code turns it to nil somewhere). What we have here is another
example of fuckage due to this variable[1]. The first problem I encountered
was japaneese not displayed at all.
Lars: if I patch gnus to remove any use of this variable under XEmacs, will
you accept it ?
Bill: s/gnus/w3/
Footnotes:
[1] Steve, I hope you're convinced now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-28 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-27 18:29 Didier Verna
1999-09-27 18:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-28 7:54 ` Didier Verna [this message]
1999-11-05 23:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-28 8:00 ` Didier Verna
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