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From: Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de>
Subject: Re: charset=iso8859-1 (sic)
Date: 26 Apr 2000 15:39:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shitx5q8vj.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "21 Apr 2000 15:41:58 +0200"

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > I wondering whether I'm allowed to vote that Gnus should recognize those
> > settings as well: "iso[-_]?8859[-_]?1" ?

> You can, but I don't think that Gnus should go around trying to "fix"
> the charset specified by other software.  Down that road lies
> madness. 

Agreed -- but I didn't vote to "fix" typos like "iso-8895-1".  I didn't
how generous is the glibc; at least the glibc treats LANG=de_DE and
LANG=de_de as equal -- okay, not LANG=de-de nor LANG=deDE...

Maybe, you're completely right ;-)

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      reply	other threads:[~2000-04-26 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-08 17:39 Karl EICHWALDER
2000-04-21 13:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-26 13:39   ` Karl EICHWALDER [this message]

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