Re: charset=macintosh

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Me too, but I'm not sure if Gnus should override Emacs' coding system
> ordering, and emacs prefers mac-roman over utf-8.  The reason Emacs
> doesn't list UTF-8 higher than macintosh is, supposedly, that the
> UTF-8 support is not complete.  Once it is complete, the emacs
> maintainers will probably change the preference ordering.

Thanks for explanation!

> Fortunately it is easy to override the priorities within Gnus:
>
>  '(mm-coding-system-priorities (quote (iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9 utf-8)))
>
> Of course, the die-hard solution is to run emacs in a UTF-8 locale,
> then UTF-8 is preferred everywhere.  I use this without problems, but
> I do use the above line to downgrade to 8859-1/8859-15 in mail,
> whenever possible.

Last week I also did Emacs in a UTF-8 locale for some days and most of
the time, it was a pleasure.  You're right one should set:

'(mm-coding-system-priorities (quote (iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9 utf-8)))

If you do not try to post using latin1/15, many a lot readers are not
that happy with your postings.

I also observed that even more users don't set the Mime headers at
all!  And Gnus assumes UTF-8 for those postings and that's always
wrong -- as you might imagine ;)

> Hm.  The UTF-8 discussion in Emacs 21.2 PROBLEMS is not present in
> Emacs 21.3 prerelease, so perhaps it has been fixed.  I'll ask on
> emacs-devel whether utf-8 should be preferred over mac-roman.

Thanks for your help!

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