Re: gnus-article-decode-charset

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

On Wed, Oct 25 2006, Miles Bader wrote:

[ gnus-article-decode-charset ]
> Aka `(C-u) W M C' in summary buffer.
>
> I often try to use this command when a message I get is apparently
> mis-decoded (due to faulty header info or whatever), but it rarely
> seems to work like I expect it to, and often doesn't give useful
> results at all.  I'm wondering if I'm using it incorrectly, or
> whether it's broken.

I never use `gnus-article-decode-charset' so I don't know there's any
useful interactive use at all.  Anyone?

In the situation you describe, I use `<prefix> g' (<menu-bar>
<Article> <Display> <View as different encoding>):

,----[ (info "(gnus)Paging the Article") ]
| `A g'
| `g'
|      (Re)fetch the current article (`gnus-summary-show-article').  If
|      given a prefix, fetch the current article, but don't run any of the
|      article treatment functions.  This will give you a "raw" article,
|      just the way it came from the server.
| 
|      If given a numerical prefix, you can do semi-manual charset stuff.
|      `C-u 0 g cn-gb-2312 RET' will decode the message as if it were
|      encoded in the `cn-gb-2312' charset.  If you have
| 
|           (setq gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist
|                 '((1 . cn-gb-2312)
|                   (2 . big5)))
| 
|      then you can say `C-u 1 g' to get the same effect.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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