Gnus development mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist
Date: 15 Dec 1999 08:20:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rj4sdkeklf.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: smarkacz@anathema.eu.org's message of "14 Dec 1999 21:18:44 +0100"

smarkacz@anathema.eu.org (smarkacz) writes:

> How do you know whether these undeclared characters are Latin1, Latin2,
> Windows1250 (yuck) or any other coding system?

Easy, look at the newsgroups header.  In dk.* the default character
set is Latin-1.  In relcom.* it is koi-8.  Separate hierarchies have
separate rules.

Obviously this causes problems for software less smart than Gnus, but
up until recently (and maybe still?) QP caused even more problems.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-15  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-07 20:45 Karl EICHWALDER
1999-12-08  6:50 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-11 20:20 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-12  6:39   ` Karl EICHWALDER
1999-12-12  9:22     ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-12 11:46       ` Bjørn Mork
1999-12-13 12:04         ` Christophe Cuq
1999-12-12 10:47     ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-12 15:54       ` Karl EICHWALDER
1999-12-12 11:07   ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-12 11:15     ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-13  9:08       ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-13 23:51         ` Karl EICHWALDER
1999-12-14  8:48           ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-21 20:06         ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-21 20:30           ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-21 21:32             ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-23 20:30               ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-21 20:47           ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-22  0:07             ` Russ Allbery
1999-12-22  0:52               ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-12-14 20:18       ` smarkacz
1999-12-14 20:56         ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-17 11:49           ` Toby Speight
1999-12-18 19:33             ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-19 10:47               ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-19 18:23           ` Karl EICHWALDER
     [not found]           ` <ug0x1bxde.fsf@lanber.ca <shvh5uhjsf.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>
1999-12-20 11:24             ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-20 23:22               ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-21 20:23                 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-20 18:20           ` Karl EICHWALDER
1999-12-15  7:20         ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
1999-12-17  8:53           ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-21 20:08             ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-21 20:29               ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-21 21:31                 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-22 10:10               ` Hrvoje Niksic

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=rj4sdkeklf.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk \
    --to=abraham@dina.kvl.dk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).