Re: Gnus coming with Emacs 21pre-release: iso-8859-{1,15}

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

Just found the old mail by Dave again; here's some more background info:

From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Unicode/Mule (Re: null-device)
To: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, haible@ilog.fr,
	pinard@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd@gnu.org
Date: 22 Jul 2001 19:17:38 +0100

[...]

 KE> The consequence is, Gnus often 

[I'd dispute ‘often’.]

 KE> thinks it has to create a multipart message...  

[Is that necessarily wrong?]

I'll eval into my message buffer

(string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 ?\xe9)
        (make-char 'latin-iso8859-14 ?\xe9)
        (make-char 'latin-iso8859-15 ?\xe9))
  => "ééé"

You may choose not to believe me that it results in a string with
three different Emacs characters and that Gnus will post this silently
in utf-8, but it's so.  I unify on encoding to utf-8 in what might as
well be a stock Emacs 21⁴.  For just the three ‘e’s, Latin-1 could
have been chosen.

What you normally see is not a consequence of Emacs forcing anything.
It can be customized.

 KE> Yes, it will only do so if you'll enter three 'y' (yes) in a row
 KE> -- this isn't "user-friendly" (Eli).

I made Gnus fixes in this general area (_not_ on the basis of bug
reports), at least some of which aren't installed.

Footnotes: 

[...]

⁴ I know Eli disagrees.

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