From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities'
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:04:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v91wkpna1y.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5yjxd3f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 17\:38\:23 -0500")
On Thu, Feb 15 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale
>> prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news.
>
> I believe that in general, if a message *can* be encoded in an 8bit
> encoding, it's likely that it will be readable by a larger audience
> than if it is encoded in utf-8.
In my understanding, the variable `mm-coding-system-priorities' is a
preference of the user sending the message rather than statement about
what is more likely to be readable by the recipient.
> But it's probably too late to change it for Emacs-22.
ACK
Bye, Reiner.
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2007-02-15 21:40 ` Reiner Steib
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