> * Reiner Steib [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 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! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive!