documentation of gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes outdated?

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

[ taking this issue from bugs@gnus.org to ding ]

On Tue, Aug 12 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| Newsgroups: gnus.gnus-bug
| Date: Tue Aug 12 06:09:50 2003 +0200
| Message-ID: <87ptjb7bzl.fsf@jidanni.org>

> gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes docstring doesn't mention it can fix the
> Euro symbol too...

I agree with Dan that the doc-string should mention that it also
covers not only quotations, but also other characters (EUR, ...).
I would like to fix the doc-string and the manual entry.  It seems to
me that nowadays, the manual entry is not accurate anymore:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Article Washing") ]
| `W d'
|      Treat M****s*** sm*rtq**t*s according to
|      `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' (`gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes').
|      Note that this function guesses whether a character is a
|      sm*rtq**t* or not, so it should only be used interactively.
| 
|      Sm*rtq**t*s are M****s***'s unilateral extension to the character
|      map in an attempt to provide more quoting characters.  If you see
|      something like `\222' or `\264' where you're expecting some kind of
|      apostrophe or quotation mark, then try this wash.
`----

- What does "unilateral extension to the character map" mean?  Which
  character map?  Latin1 (= iso-8859-1)?

- We should mention \200 (-> EUR), as it's probably the most frequent
  `dumb-quote' now (at least in Europe).

- I guess most (or all?) chars from `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' are
  `windows-1252' characters, not present in Latin-1.  `windows-1252'
  is a registered[1] charset.  So the real problem is that some
  Windows clients send `windows-1252' labeled as `iso-8859-1'.

- A better alternative to `W d' in the development version of Emacs
  (CVS HEAD) is `1 g windows-1252 RET' after `(require "code-pages")'.
  Should we mentions this?

Any suggestions, opinions?

Bye, Reiner.

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
    See also:
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm
    http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
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