Re: Unknown charset: gbk

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

On Mon, Oct 08 2007, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GBK
> caused
>  Unknown charset: gbk
> so I had to use
>  munpack -t && iconv -f gbk part1
> to read the message. gnus-version "Gnus v5.11".

To reproduce the problem and to test a fix, it would help if you'd
give us the Message-ID (and newsgroup) of such articles.

Hopefully fixed in CVS (trunk and v5-10) by this patch (at least in
Emacs 22):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- mm-util.el	04 Oct 2007 20:22:22 +0200	7.67
+++ mm-util.el	08 Oct 2007 20:06:31 +0200	
@@ -253,6 +253,12 @@
     ,@(when (and (not (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-31j))
 		 (mm-coding-system-p 'cp932))
 	'((windows-31j . cp932)))
+    ;; Charset name: GBK, Charset aliases: CP936, MS936, windows-936
+    ;; http://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/GBK
+    ;; Emacs 22.1 has cp936, but not gbk, so we alias it:
+    ,@(when (and (not (mm-coding-system-p 'gbk))
+		 (mm-coding-system-p 'cp936))
+	'((gbk . cp936)))
     ;; ISO8859-1 is ISO-8859-1
     ,@(when (and (not (mm-coding-system-p 'iso8859-1))
 		 (mm-coding-system-p 'iso-8859-1))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye, Reiner.
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