* Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' [not found] <86sldbdc7e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> @ 2007-02-15 21:40 ` Reiner Steib 2007-02-15 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Reiner Steib @ 2007-02-15 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Kastrup; +Cc: ding, emacs-devel On Mon, Feb 12 2007, David Kastrup wrote: > nowadays a lot of GNU/Linux systems have set up an utf-8 locale by > default. Now the default value of > mm-coding-system-priorities is [...] > It would now seem appropriate to make mm-coding-system-priorities > effectively default to '(iso-8859-1 utf-8), namely first try > iso-8859-1 before going over to utf-8. > > I am not sure whether this change is something that should be done at > mm-coding-system-priorities level or in the English language > environment, though. But since it is reasonable in an utf-8 locale > that files that are read and written are primarily considered utf-8, > it really might be appropriate to confine the Latin-1 preference to > mail and news interchange. > > But there it is _definitely_ preferable. I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. Anyhow, as mm-coding-system-priorities is customizable, I don't see any need to change the default now. We might want to try David's suggestion in Gnus CVS (trunk). Opinions? (Cc-ing ding) Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' 2007-02-15 21:40 ` Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' Reiner Steib @ 2007-02-15 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier 2007-02-16 20:04 ` Reiner Steib 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-02-15 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Kastrup; +Cc: ding, emacs-devel > I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale > prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. I believe that in general, if a message *can* be encoded in an 8bit encoding, it's likely that it will be readable by a larger audience than if it is encoded in utf-8. But it's probably too late to change it for Emacs-22. Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' 2007-02-15 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier @ 2007-02-16 20:04 ` Reiner Steib 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Reiner Steib @ 2007-02-16 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: ding, emacs-devel On Thu, Feb 15 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale >> prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. > > I believe that in general, if a message *can* be encoded in an 8bit > encoding, it's likely that it will be readable by a larger audience > than if it is encoded in utf-8. In my understanding, the variable `mm-coding-system-priorities' is a preference of the user sending the message rather than statement about what is more likely to be readable by the recipient. > But it's probably too late to change it for Emacs-22. ACK Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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