From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5368 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Woody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How Do I Suppress Header Encoding For Some Groups? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:43:56 +0800 Organization: Bentium Ltd. (CN99) Message-ID: <871x64pu2r.fsf@narke.yellow.line> References: <87pstrl22o.fsf@narke.yellow.line> <873bql2gzm.fsf@narke.yellow.line> <17106.63522.196493.233668@parhasard.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=macintosh Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671099 27130 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.cn99.com!narke.yellow.line!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.13.192.251 Original-X-Trace: mail.cn99.com 1121142199 58288 218.13.192.251 (12 Jul 2005 04:23:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.cn99.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:23:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1gZIzVbAz2ZROJishxYipGwr/aU= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5510 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5510 Tue Jan 17 17:35:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5368 Archived-At: Aidan Kehoe writes: > There is no other way standard way to encode those headers, for non-ASCII > text, besides RFC 2047 encoding, the process youÕve asked how to > suppress. (And even that standard is only applied to Usenet by a process of > widespread looking-the-other-way.) So, what youÕre asking is Ōthis text is > illegible because some web archiving software is broken. How do I make it > illegible (perhaps in a different way, but I havenÕt specified if thatÕs > necessary)?Ķ Not a very constructive question. > > This piece of advice will transform all non-ASCII characters in the relevant > headers to a full stop, and may be enough for you if you add it to your > initialisation file: > > (defadvice rfc2047-encode-message-header > (before my-rfc2047-encode-message-header-change activate) > "Replace non-ASCII characters in the headers with . if the region contains > soc.culture.china. " > (goto-char (point-min)) > (while (re-search-forward "[^\001-\177]" nil t) > (replace-match "."))) this method is not practical for what i mentioned no-ascii characters are actually chinese, my native language. ;-( > > But I canÕt read minds. What you should be doing is telling the maintainers > of the web archive software to fix their program. they refused to do that and provided a 'good' reason, microsoft outloop express, which is a popluar newsreader, does not encode the header (actually the subject line), so their web archive works fine with it. - narke