Re: UTF-8 reading broken?

["Toby Speight" <streapadair@gmx.net>]

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0> In <URL:news:m3d7b47917.fsf@wazabi.tpi.pl>,
0> Jakub Marty <URL:mailto:jakub@martynski.pl> ("Jakub") wrote:

Jakub> I have another question: i want make "iso-8859-2" default
Jakub> coding for my posts and mails, but when i reply to "utf-8" i
Jakub> got charset "utf-8" in my headers (like in that post). How set
Jakub> recoding all "utf-8" posts to iso-8859-2 in Gnus?

I think this is a side-effect of how MULE works - it doesn't really
understand that a "á" character (for example) is in Latin-2 as well as
Latin-1, so when it reads "á", it puts a Latin-1 "á" in the message,
rather than a Latin-2 "á"[*].  If you quote this, and add some text of
your own with a Latin-2 "á" (or if the quote contains a character like
"ń" which isn't in Latin-1), then Mule thinks you've mixed two different
encodings.  That's why it uses UTF-8.

The fix isn't easy - though it may be possible to patch mule-ucs to
prefer Latin-2 encoding when reading.  I wouldn't know how to do this,
unfortunately.

[*] I've distinguished the two characters during composition, but this
    will be sent as UTF-8, so you won't be able tell them apart.
    Perhaps if I divide the message by hand, they'll get coded
    seperately:



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> I think this is a side-effect of how MULE works - it doesn't really
> understand that a "á" character (for example) is in Latin-2 as well as
> Latin-1, so when it reads "á", it puts a Latin-1 "á" in the message,

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> rather than a Latin-2 "á"[*].  If you quote this, and add some text of
> your own with a Latin-2 "á" (or if the quote contains a character like
> "ń" which isn't in Latin-1), then Mule thinks you've mixed two different
> encodings.  That's why it uses UTF-8.