[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>] Gnus setup with non-ASCII characters

["Kai Großjohann" <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>]

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I have (set-language-environment "Latin-1").  And, well, you can see
my own From header.

Apparently, some clients (Gnus included) don't seem to take the hint
that the From header is Latin-1, if

  - the default language environment is something other than Latin-1,
    and
  - the body is ASCII-only (there is no CTE header or it says ASCII
    rather than iso-8859-1).

I'm not sure what's supposed to happen.  Maybe Gnus should take a look
at the headers, and if there is a non-ASCII part in it, the body
should at least be encoded in the same non-ASCII encoding.

I'm not at all sure, however, what's going to happen if the header is
iso-8859-1, say, and the body iso-8859-5.

Does somebody know what should happen?

kai
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:05:36 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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To: Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Subject: Gnus setup with non-ASCII characters
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Kai, I hate to bother you, but there's one problem with your Gnus
setup: it lies about the character set your messages are using.  The
headers say:

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

However, your name, Kai Großjohann, in the From: header uses Latin-1
characters.  This might go unnoticed by people whose Mule setup is the
default one, where Latin-1 is the default non-ASCII character set, but
my setup uses ISO 8859-8 set as the default, and therefore I see funny
characters in your name.

Could you please tell Gnus to say "charset=iso-8859-1" in the headers?


From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Subject: Gnus setup with non-ASCII characters
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:05:36 +0300 (IDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990720120432.4115L-100000@is>


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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Subject: Gnus setup with non-ASCII characters
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:05:36 +0300 (IDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990720120432.4115L-100000@is>


Kai, I hate to bother you, but there's one problem with your Gnus
setup: it lies about the character set your messages are using.  The
headers say:

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

However, your name, Kai Großjohann, in the From: header uses Latin-1
characters.  This might go unnoticed by people whose Mule setup is the
default one, where Latin-1 is the default non-ASCII character set, but
my setup uses ISO 8859-8 set as the default, and therefore I see funny
characters in your name.

Could you please tell Gnus to say "charset=iso-8859-1" in the headers?