Re: Gnus not choosing latin9 if euro sign is present

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

On Thu, Sep 15 2005, Kevin Bube wrote:

> I now tested with minimal .emacs and .gnus:
>
> ,----[.emacs]
> | (set-language-environment "Latin-9")
> | (setq load-path (cons "/home/kevin/src/lisp/cvs-gnus/lisp" load-path))
> `----
> ,----[.gnus]
> | ; -*-Emacs-Lisp-*-
> | (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
> | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.t-online.de")))
> | (setq mail-sources '((maildir :path "/home/kevin/.Maildir")))
> `----
>
> I then start up emacs with
>
> emacs --no-site-file -fn  -*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-140-*-iso8859-15 -f gnus

You shouldn't use iso8859-15 here:

,----[ (info "(emacs)Font X") ]
| CHARSET
|      This is the character set that the font depicts.  Normally you
|      should use `iso8859-1'.
`----

> The problem still persits: Mails with euro sign get
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My guess is that you inserted a currency sign (¤) instead of a EUR.
But it is displayed as EUR sign because of your bogus font setting.
As currency is not included in iso-8859-15, Gnus chooses iso-8859-1.

You can find out which char it is, by using `C-u C-x =' on the char.

Bye, Reiner.
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