Re: Emacs unicode merge changes to Gnus

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

On Wed, Feb 20 2008, Miles Bader wrote:

> Also, what about the removal of mm-hack-charsets?  I didn't notice any
> replies to your query to the list about that...

I replied via Gmane (and didn't Cc you, sorry), but the message didn't
appear on the list.  Here it is...

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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: Emacs unicode merge changes to Gnus
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:30:04 +0100
Message-ID: <v98x1m3z6r.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

On Fri, Feb 15 2008, Miles Bader wrote:

> So, I still don't know what to do about this.

Sorry, I didn't have time to look into the coding system issue yet.

> [By default, I'll just commit those changes.]

I think all changes beside `gnus-ding-file-coding-system'
(`mm-universal-coding-system') are clear.  I.e. proceed as I suggested
in my first reply <news:v9prv9rb28.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>:

- Merge "Add gbk and GB18030" changes

- Revert `mm-hack-charsets' removal in Emacs CVS (and don't merge it
  to Gnus, of course).

- `rfc2104-hexstring-to-byte-list':  I'm not sure.  Unless someone
  sees a problem now, merge it to Gnus.

> Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:
>> What about (1) using the coding: cookie, (2) change the coding system
>> used to be utf-8 if possible (no binary), and utf-8-emacs otherwise.
>>
>> That should more or less work correctly except when people have binary
>> junk, and that should be very rare (right...?).
>>
>> I guess it won't work for some other cases, like someone with CJK text
>> who switches from Emacs 23 to Emacs 21, but ...

Emacs 23 still has `emacs-mule' as coding system.  Does it allow to
encode everything?  If so, we might use `emacs-mule' instead of
`utf-8-emacs'.  If not, we could recommend setting
`mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule' for those who want to use
Gnus in Emacs 23 and Emacs 21/22.
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Bye, Reiner.
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