From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus
Date: 04 Nov 2001 02:31:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yl1yjeesj7.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Florian Weimer's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2001 01:56:36 +0100"
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>> For the headers, I agree, but for the body, no. There's no such
>>> default in the current draft.
>> It's inherited from MIME.
> How do you know? ;-)
How do I know which? That news messages are supposed to be MIME messages?
The draft says that pretty clearly, I thought, although it then mentions a
bunch of exceptions like UTF-8 headers.
> The draft encourages implementations to recognize UTF-8 even though it
> is not declared (and fails to mention the already existing practice of
> hierarchy-specific default charsets).
The draft completely ignores all sorts of existing practice that the
authors seem to find inconvenient. *sigh*
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-04 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-27 21:50 Raymond Scholz
2001-10-27 22:51 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-28 13:12 ` Raymond Scholz
2001-11-01 11:26 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 14:37 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-01 21:06 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 23:30 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-02 19:36 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-02 22:36 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-03 10:37 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 14:53 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-03 16:36 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-03 18:29 ` Graham Murray
2001-11-03 20:28 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 20:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 20:38 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 21:11 ` USEFOR (was: Re: Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 21:34 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 22:01 ` USEFOR Florian Weimer
2001-11-05 10:46 ` USEFOR Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 21:57 ` Using iso-8859-15 with Emacs21 & Gnus Florian Weimer
2001-11-03 22:09 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-04 0:56 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-04 10:31 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2001-11-04 18:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-04 23:27 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-04 18:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-03 19:57 ` Karl Eichwalder
2001-11-03 12:54 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 23:31 ` Paul Jarc
2001-11-01 21:14 ` Raymond Scholz
2001-11-01 22:26 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 17:51 ` news
2001-11-01 21:06 ` Florian Weimer
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