Re: UTF-8, oGnus and Emacs 21?

Re: UTF-8, oGnus and Emacs 21?

[Simon Josefsson]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Jonas Steverud wrote:

> What is the recommended approach to make oGnus and Emacs 21 (with a
> possible option to downgrade to Emacs 20.7, if possible) understand UTF-8?

It should "understand", as in be able to read incoming utf-8, by default.  
Doesn't it work?

However, to send utf-8 there are many alternatives.  Perhaps the easiest 
to comprehend is to make Emacs as a whole prefer utf-8:

    (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

In addition you may want to add iso-latin-1 to 
mm-coding-system-priorities, which makes Gnus prefer latin-1 over utf-8 if
that's possible.

If you don't want to mess with emacs, a more specific way would be to wrap
your message in a <#mml charset=utf-8> tag.

Re: UTF-8, oGnus and Emacs 21?

[Kai Großjohann]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> Are these the culprit? The first line was added during the days of the
> blasted \201. (Are those days completely of the past?)

You should not set enable-multibyte-characters to nil.  The days of
the \201 will soon be replaced by the days of the \219 (iso-8859-15) :-)

Seriously, I don't think it's a real problem to allow multibyte
characters.

kai
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