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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: [Q]: Is this a safe practice ?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:28:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v94ql1sg4c.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <plop87zn2t1vtg.fsf@gnu-rox.org>

On Mon, Oct 11 2004, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> I am not a charset/encoding expert at all and I would like to
> know wether this:
>   (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist
> 	       '(iso-8859-15 . iso-8859-1)))
>
> Is a safe practice or not ? Is there any risk ?

It's simply incorrect.  Especially for French the oe/OE ligatures
(œ/Œ) are relevant.  See e.g.
<URL:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html>.

BTW, hiding text in `application/emacs-lisp' attachment is also not a
good idea.

Bye, Reiner.
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      (o o)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-11  8:51 Xavier Maillard
2004-10-11  9:59 ` Frank Schmitt
2004-10-11 11:18   ` Xavier Maillard
2004-10-11 10:28 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2004-10-11 20:45   ` Xavier Maillard
2004-10-11 21:35     ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-12  5:34       ` Xavier Maillard
2004-10-11 10:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2004-10-11 11:20   ` Xavier Maillard

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