* mm-util.el should know as many charsets as iconv
@ 2006-06-19 14:46 Dan Jacobson
2006-06-19 21:30 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2006-06-19 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
In the buffer *Messages* I have painstakingly traced the non "$0"
prefixed message "Unknown charset: windows-874" to the file
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp/mm-util.el
And how unfair it is that windows-874 is unknown. Compare
$ iconv -l |grep 874|xargs
874// CP874// CSISO153GOST1976874// GOST_1976874// IBM874// WINDOWS-874//
So maybe if mm-util.el doesn't know a charset, perhaps it should
upcase the name, and pass the work over to iconv to give it a try.
OK, I did
(codepage-setup 874)(define-coding-system-alias 'windows-874 'cp874)
like the Info page said. The Info page should say why we must do this
by hand as it is not done automatically for us for all "windows-" sets.
$ man Encode::Supported says for example,
All cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-* .
(By the way, the characters shown were squares unless I used emacs -nw
or used echo in a shell buffer. Perhaps I don't have a bold Thai font
installed.)
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* Re: mm-util.el should know as many charsets as iconv
2006-06-19 14:46 mm-util.el should know as many charsets as iconv Dan Jacobson
@ 2006-06-19 21:30 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-06-19 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bugs, ding
On Mon, Jun 19 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> In the buffer *Messages* I have painstakingly traced the non "$0"
> prefixed message "Unknown charset: windows-874" to the file
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp/mm-util.el
>
> And how unfair it is that windows-874 is unknown. Compare
> $ iconv -l |grep 874|xargs
> 874// CP874// CSISO153GOST1976874// GOST_1976874// IBM874// WINDOWS-874//
>
> So maybe if mm-util.el doesn't know a charset, perhaps it should
> upcase the name, and pass the work over to iconv to give it a try.
mm-util.el doesn't "know" any charset. The available charsets are
provided by (X)Emacs.
> OK, I did (codepage-setup 874)(define-coding-system-alias
> 'windows-874 'cp874) like the Info page said.
See also `mm-charset-eval-alist' (I didn't have time to document this
properly yet) and `mm-charset-synonym-alist'.
> The Info page should say why we must do this by hand as it is not
> done automatically for us for all "windows-" sets.
I recall some discussing on emacs-devel or emacs-pretest-bugs the not
all `cp...' charsets should be aliased to `windows-...'. AFAICS,
`windows-874' is not IANA registered:
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets>.
> (By the way, the characters shown were squares unless I used emacs -nw
> or used echo in a shell buffer. Perhaps I don't have a bold Thai font
> installed.)
Probably.
Bye, Reiner.
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