Re: Emacs unicode merge changes to Gnus

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

On Wed, Feb 20 2008, Miles Bader wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2008 9:39 AM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>> >   1) Should gnus write the cookie?   (obviously yes, I think)
>> >
>> >   2) Should Gnus stop forcing the coding system when it reads the file?
>> >      (i.e., should Gnus let coding: do its job)
>> >
>> >   3) Should Gnus switch to utf-8-emacs as the default coding system for
>> >      writing files?
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.  Please apply (1) and (2).
>
> ... However I now notice that Gnus has used "utf-8-emacs" by default
> for a _long_ time, if it's supported!!  Here's the ChangeLog entry:
>
> 2003-04-24  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
>
>         * mm-util.el (mm-make-temp-file, mm-insert-byte): New.
>         (mm-auto-save-coding-system): Consider utf-8-emacs.
>
> That means anybody who's been running the unicode branch (a lot of
> people), or the trunk (since the branch was merged) has had their Gnus
> files encoding using utf-8-emacs for quite a while...
>
> 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.

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

Bye, Reiner.
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