Re: UTF-8 and (X)Emacs/Gnus

Re: UTF-8 and (X)Emacs/Gnus

[Per Abrahamsen]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.emacs as well.

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Gnus view mail with UTF-8 in header:
> Gnus send mail with UTF-8 in header:

There are two cases here, raw UTF8 and MIME encoded UTF8.

According to USEFOR both should work since UTF8 is the default
character set in headers.  However, for practical reasons Gnus must
continue to treat raw 8bit on a hierarchy by hierarchy basis.  The
default should probably be changed to utf-8, and the latin-1
hierarchies explicitly listed in 'gnus-group-charset-alist'.

> Gnus view news with UTF-8 Newsgroups:
>
> All: OK, but Newsgroup: isn't displayed as UTF-8

No, this is a special case.  Even for latin-1 hierarchies, newsgroup
names should be utf8.  Gnus should really consult
'gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' when deciding how to interpret
the header.

I have no idea how to implement something like that.  Someone please
look at it, it would be great to be able to tell USEFOR we have a
working implementation of UTF8 newsgroup names.

> Gnus send news with UTF-8 Newsgroups:
>
> Emacs 21: Complains about unencoded characters

Do you CC or BCC the message?  I only get the complaint when I BCC
myself, which is because the mail back end doesn't allow unencoded 8bit.

If I answer "yes" to the "encode anyway" question, it gets mime
encoded in the mail message, but still raw in the news message, which
is correct.