Re: wrong charset in spite of proper format

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

On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Miles Bader wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> [*] I've posted a series of test postings for windows-125* to
>
> I notice that my emacs only displays something meaningful for 1251
> and 1252; should it be able to handle the others too?

The article "windows-1252" was actually created as windows-1252.  Then
I just replaced "windows-1252" by "windows-125x" (x \in {0...9}) in
the outgoing file using sed.  Emacs should display _something_ (at
least for A0-FF), although not necessarily the character denoted in
the "Description (only correct for Latin-1)" column.  The description
should be correct for windows-1252.  E.g. at Hex A3 there is "POUND
SIGN" in windows-1252 but a Cyrillic-J (Ј) in windows-1251.

As "windows-1259" doesn't exist (AFAIK), this article should display
the "Unknown charset" message (you must have `gnus-verbose' >= 7).

> Or is it a font issue or something (though I've got lots of fonts
> installed; most of emacs HELLO displays properly)?

If you see hollow squares, it is a font issue, I think.  If you see
\200 or similar, the position might be unused in this charset.

Bye, Reiner.
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