Re: how to save in "cooked" format?

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

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> * Reiner Steib <ervarefgrvo+tznar@vznc.pp> [2005-11-03 22:01:47 +0100]:
>
> On Thu, Nov 03 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>> this the MS approach: to read a MS Word document, you must use MS Word.
>> to read a file saved by Gnus, you must use Gnus.
>> this is just plain wrong.
> [...]
>>
>> C-o RET C-x C-f <Up> RET
>> should show the same characters displayed in the "*Article*" buffer,
>> not some junk from the " *Original Article*" buffer (maybe with more
>> headers, maybe without fontifications, but it should be _human_
>> _readable_, not just _gnus_ _readable_).
>
> Sam, please stop this FUD.

this is not FUD.
First I asked "how do I save articles in plain text".
I was told: "you don't - save as mail and use gnus"
I replied: this is wrong, there should be a way to save in text format.

> The command `C-o' is documented[1] to save the article in Unix mail
> format which is exactly what it does.  Unix mail format (supplemented
> with the relevant MIME extensions) isn't a Gnus-only format (I'm quite
> sure you a aware of this).  If the article contains non-ASCII it _has_
> to be encoded somehow.

fine, so how do I save without this ASCII encoding?!

> `O f', `O F' or `o' with gnus-default-article-saver set to
> gnus-summary-write-to-file or gnus-summary-save-in-file more or less
> do what you want.

thanks. this is nice.
alas, there is just two small problems:
1. the Subject line remains in the "=?windows-1251?Q?=..." format
2. the text is not saved in the correct encoding.  the file to which I
   append starts with
-*- coding: utf-8-unix -*-
   it is not saved correctly:

œô¨¿œô¨àœô¨Øœô¨Òœô¨Õœô¨â Sam!

instead of

Привет Sam!


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