Default character encoding

Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when
no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

I searched but only found the concept of washing, which replaces “ when
encoded as octal 224 with `` for example. W Y f. A very useful function
anyway.


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Re: Default character encoding

[Emanuel Berg]

Richmond wrote:

> I searched but only found the concept of
> washing, which replaces “ when encoded as
> octal 224 with `` for example. W Y f. A very
> useful function anyway.
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As you seem to be so concerned with the
appearance of articles, how about reading
section 4.3 in RFC 3676? :)

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

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Re: Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

>
> As you seem to be so concerned with the
> appearance of articles, how about reading
> section 4.3 in RFC 3676? :)
>
>     http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

OK my lawyer and I read the document. I think I get what you are
saying. :)

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Re: Default character encoding

[Emanuel Berg]

Richmond wrote:

> This signature is entended purely to provide
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This reply is for display purposes ONLY.

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Re: Default character encoding

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Richmond [2017-07-23 18:16:50+01] wrote:

> Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?)
> when no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

Yes. See variables gnus-default-charset and gnus-group-charset-alist.
For example:

    (setq gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)

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Re: Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Richmond [2017-07-23 18:16:50+01] wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?)
>> when no character set is specified in headers of news articles?
>
> Yes. See variables gnus-default-charset and gnus-group-charset-alist.
> For example:
>
>     (setq gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)

Thanks, that's an even better solution I think.

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Re: Default character encoding

[Emanuel Berg]

Richmond wrote:

>> Is it possible to make Gnus default to
>> Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when no
>> character set is specified in headers of
>> news articles? Yes. See variables
>> gnus-default-charset and
>> gnus-group-charset-alist. For example: (setq
>> gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)
>
> Thanks, that's an even better solution
> I think.

I have:

    (setq mm-body-charset-encoding-alist '((utf-8 . 8bit)))

This is getting confusing...

And: How can you tell what encoding is in
effect in an article?

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Re: Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

>
> And: How can you tell what encoding is in
> effect in an article?

I think you can use C-U C-X =

Put the curser over a character in the article whose encoding you would
like to know. If you are using gmane (or maybe even if you are not) try
it on these:

𐅻
“


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Re: Default character encoding

[Emanuel Berg]

Richmond wrote:

> I think you can use C-U C-X =

`C-x =' is `what-cursor-position' and with C-u
it brings up DETAILs instead of just a short
message in the echo area.

The information with C-u is identical to what
you get with `describe-char'.

> Put the curser over a character in the
> article whose encoding you would like to
> know. If you are using gmane (or maybe even
> if you are not) try it on these:
>
> 𐅻

The Linux VT can't display it other than as
a diamond but the encoding is utf-8-emacs.

> “

Displayable, utf-8-emacs.

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Re: Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Richmond wrote:
>
>> I think you can use C-U C-X =
>
> `C-x =' is `what-cursor-position' and with C-u
> it brings up DETAILs instead of just a short
> message in the echo area.
>
> The information with C-u is identical to what
> you get with `describe-char'.
>
>> Put the curser over a character in the
>> article whose encoding you would like to
>> know. If you are using gmane (or maybe even
>> if you are not) try it on these:
>>
>> 𐅻
>
> The Linux VT can't display it other than as
> a diamond but the encoding is utf-8-emacs.
>
>> “
>
> Displayable, utf-8-emacs.

What's the linux VT? The virtual console? I am using xfce4-terminal and
that can display it with xos4-terminus font. I think you would have to
change the font on the console to one which supported unicode.

Well I guess it told you the encoding anyway, which is what you wanted
to know.

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Re: Default character encoding

[Emanuel Berg]

Richmond wrote:

> What's the linux VT? The virtual console?

The console = the Linux VTs = the
teletypewriters or ttys.

By default, you get to them from X with
Control Alt F1.

> I am using xfce4-terminal and that can
> display it with xos4-terminus font. I think
> you would have to change the font on the
> console to one which supported unicode.

It is the console that only supports a (more)
limited number of chars.

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Re: Default character encoding

[Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)]

Richmond <p1299721@protonmail.com> 께서 쓰시길,
 《記事 全文 <86d18rt6nx.fsf@example.com> 에서》:

> Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when
> no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

How about this: in ~/.emacs

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
#+END_SRC

Then Gnus display on UTF-8, always!!!

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Re: Default character encoding

[Richmond]

soyeomul@doraji.xyz (Byung-Hee HWANG "(황병희, 黃炳熙)") writes:

>
> How about this: in ~/.emacs
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> #+END_SRC
>
> Then Gnus display on UTF-8, always!!!

Thanks. I've, um, slightly adapted that for my needs. :)

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