From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30421 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl EICHWALDER Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: charset=iso8859-1 (sic) Date: 26 Apr 2000 15:39:28 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166961 8382 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:22:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061CBD051E for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB29672; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:35:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:35:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23906 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:35:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAE2D051F for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by rachael.franken.de via sendmail with stdio id for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:35:30 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Original-Received: from dns.franken.de(193.175.24.33), claiming to be "chico.franken.de" via SMTP by rachael.franken.de, id smtpdAAAa17606; Wed Apr 26 18:35:10 2000 Original-Received: by chico.franken.de with UUCP for ding@gnus.org id m12kUmL-005Cu0C; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:35:09 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id F2CE4DC401; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "21 Apr 2000 15:41:58 +0200" Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30421 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30421 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 ;-) -- work : ke@suse.de | : http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ------ ,__o home : ke@gnu.franken.de | ------ _-\_<, : http://www.franken.de/users/gnu/ke/ | ------ (*)/'(*)