Re: Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Anyway, I think Kai was talking about the default charset for posting,
> which is properly MIME-declared by Gnus.

Well, err.  Hm.  I wasn't thinking of this explicitly, but in effect,
that's what I was saying: right now, Gnus uses Latin-1 for German
Umlauts, and after I switch to Latin-9, Gnus should use Latin-9 for
the Umlauts, too.

In the current design of Mule, this would be achieved by the
following chain of events:

* I change (set-language-environment "Latin-1") to
  (set-language-environment "Latin-9").

* Now typing `" a' inserts a Latin-9 ä which Emacs distinguishes from
  a Latin-1 ä.

* Gnus sees non-Ascii Latin-9 characters in my post and chooses
  iso-8859-15 as charset.

After changing Mule to unify the various Latin-* charsets, Emacs does
not distinguish the two variants of ä anymore.  Not sure what that
means to the whole procedure.  Maybe Latin-9 is preferred and used
whenever possible, after set-language-environment?  Maybe.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.