Re: Display unknown non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?'

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

On Wed, Oct 12 2005, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
[...]
>> While at it...
>> | If so, why does it not replace everything by dots, X or ?.
>>
>> I.e. if the charset is not available: How can we configure Gnus to
>> display every non-ASCII chars as `.', `X' or `?'?
>
> This is a violation of RFC2049, which gives the following criteria for
> a MIME-conformant MUA:
>
>    -- Treat material in an unknown character set as if it were
>       "application/octet-stream".

I fail to see the connection (Disclaimer: I didn't read this RFC).
"application/octet-stream" is a content type, whereas I was talking
about the charset.

BTW: Yesterday, in the German newsgroup de.comm.software.newsreader a
thread titled "Zeichensatz erraten"[1] started about this topic.  Some
people claim that the receiver _must_ assume `us-ascii' when MIME
headers are absent.

In case it wasn't clear: I don't want to change Gnus default behavior.
But maybe it makes sense to replace unknown chars by `?' for some
users so it should be possible to do this with Gnus.

Bye, Reiner.

[1] http://www.google.de/groups?as_umsgid=9fk6Itd7fjB%40helmut.hullen.de&hl=en
    http://groups.google.de/group/de.comm.software.newsreader/browse_frm/thread/7c7ed4e3c7e63560/cede6121a1685dda#cede6121a1685dda
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