From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64332 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:04:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <86sldbdc7e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171656346 2873 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2007 20:05:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 16 21:05:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HI9KI-00031S-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:05:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI9KH-00057e-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HI9K6-00057P-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HI9K3-00057D-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI9K3-00057A-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.1]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HI9K1-0007gd-5k; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1GK4fxD023360; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:04:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix, from userid 170) id 39F9F127AE; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:04:41 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Monnier , David Kastrup , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 17\:38\:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-PacNet-SG-Metrics: gemini 1358; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66461 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64332 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/