From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4384 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Displaying different character sets on console Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:16:31 +0000 Message-ID: <16888.59823.444944.118614@parhasard.net> References: <87pszsmecg.fsf@koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670318 23020 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:18:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:41 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net rPMc2KBhE+McZgZpol1QvATQ5DkaC7QnOSavjuHVwweW71mjKE User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jdyNwOa6F9VnYcE5PPTTQzByQ0Y= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4525 Original-Lines: 20 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4525 Tue Jan 17 17:33:41 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4384 Archived-At: Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Adam Sjøgren: > I am curious as to why the headers specify a Japanese charset to > tranfer Greek letters? Because Mule was implemented in a way that’s very friendly to ISO 2022, which specified a universal character encoding a couple of decades before Unicode. So the natural Mule way to encode a non-ASCII character in a mail is to write it using ISO 2022 and to specify iso-2022 as the MIME charset. (The -jp is defaulted to because Mule was implemented in Japan; it could equivalently be -kr or -cn.) Of course, outside East Asia, very little software understands ISO 2022, and for the sake of recipients’ clients’ it should have used iso-8859-7 or UTF-8. -- “Ah come on now Ted, a Volkswagen with a mind of its own, driving all over the place and going mad, if that’s not scary I don’t know what is.”