Re: Emacs unicode merge changes to Gnus

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Feb 20 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20 2008, Miles Bader wrote:
>> Also, what about the removal of mm-hack-charsets?  I didn't notice any
>> replies to your query to the list about that...
> [...]
> - Merge "Add gbk and GB18030" changes
> - Revert `mm-hack-charsets' removal in Emacs CVS (and don't merge it
>   to Gnus, of course).
> - `rfc2104-hexstring-to-byte-list':  I'm not sure.  Unless someone
>   sees a problem now, merge it to Gnus.

[...]
>> So I'm not sure what to do, really...  It seems like a step backward
>> (and perhaps dangerous) to explicitly change that to emacs-mule.
>
> Okay, let's use utf-8-emacs.

I.e. let us install this in Gnus' trunk:

	* gnus-start.el (gnus-read-newsrc-el-file): Don't bind
	coding-system-for-read.
	(gnus-gnus-to-quick-newsrc-format): Insert coding cookie.

Miles, do you need more information or do you just need some time?

> We should warn about the incompatibility in GNUS-NEWS (info "(gnus)No
> Gnus") and emacs/etc/NEWS.

[I can do this.]

Bye, Reiner.
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