Re: Changing charset for posting news

[Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>]

 Ar an dara lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh David Sumbler: 

 > > Hit `G c' on the group that you want to customize.  Set the preferred
 > > charset to iso-8859-1.  Save.  That should do it.  The Gnus manual
 > > should have more information on this - I don't use it myself, so the
 > > manual is the authoritative source.
 > 
 > Strange: I have tried this, having commented out in .gnus the lines
 > suggested by Aidan, and it doesn't work!  Despite having specified
 > iso-8859-1, as you suggest, messages I send to the fr.test group still
 > are sent as UTF-8 and quoted printable.

That’s a bug that some changes I made tickled, according to this mail:

http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200505/msg00121.html

But I’ve looked into this some more, and, well, the design of that code is
hugely broken--loads of programming using and endorsing underdocumented
dynamic binding, crazy return values--and I haven’t seen an example where
setting mm-coding-system-priorities appropriately is broken. I’ll put
together a patch removing support for newsgroup-specific character sets if
this sounds reasonable. 

If not, I’ll look into adding support for binding message-posting-charset
around calls to mm-find-charset-region, which should re-add support for the
charset-per-newsgroup approach. 

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