From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63884 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-article-decode-charset Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:58:02 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <877iyomqdi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161790287 23692 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 15:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m12411@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 25 17:31:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gckih-0006Ad-CN for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Gckib-0005aM-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:31:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GckiU-0005aH-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GckiP-0002aC-1p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GckiM-0006U6-00 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcki7-00065K-Ki for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:30:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v7mXzLr+UCuTk4sPmW6FXjD66x8= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:63884 Archived-At: 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 ` g' (
): ,----[ (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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/