Re: How to swith off Mime encoding when replying to post ?

Re: How to swith off Mime encoding when replying to post ?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

frederic.line@wanadoo.fr (Frédéric Liné) writes:

> When I send a reply to a post, the message is mime-encoded. Is there a way
> to prevent this encoding ?

See `gnus-group-posting-charset-alist' and related variables.

But why would you do something like that?

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Re: How to swith off Mime encoding when replying to post ?

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Apr 29 2003, Frédéric Liné wrote:

> But the guy's complaint was more specifically about the presence 
> of mime pieces. Is it the same problem ?
>
> My question in fact is how to prevent having mime pieces in posts ?

On Thu, May 01 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Does anybody have a cookbook example on how to switch off MIME in
> certain news groups?  This should probably be in the FAQ.  (Perhaps
> it already is?  :-)

I'm not sure, what Frédéric meant.  Maybe he's talking about
multipart/mixed articles.  This is indeed a FAQ:

;; For Emacs (and thus Gnus), an `Ä' from ISO-8859-1 [1] is different than an
;; `Ä' from ISO-8859-15 [1].  Thus, when you reply to a message, the quote may
;; contain characters from ISO-8859-1.  When you enter characters from
;; ISO-8859-15, you'll end up in a buffer that contains characters from
;; different charsets.  Therefore Gnus splits the message into ISO-8859-1 and
;; ISO-8859-15 parts.  Gnus will prompt you: "A message part needs to be split
;; into N charset parts.  Really send?".  Unfortunately users with other news-
;; and mailreaders don't like this kind of messages ("Content-Type:
;; multipart/mixed").
;;
;; [1] ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin-1) and ISO-8859-15 (aka Latin-9 or Latin-0) are
;; just exapmles here, though the most important ones in western europe.

See <URL:http://my.gnus.org/Members/rsteib/howto_unify/> [1] or
<URL:http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/rs-gnus-unify.el>
for details.

Bye, Reiner.

[1] my.gnus.org has been down the last days.
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Re: How to swith off Mime encoding when replying to post ?

[Frédéric Liné]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> I'm not sure, what Frédéric meant.  Maybe he's talking about
> multipart/mixed articles.  This is indeed a FAQ:
> 
> For Emacs (and thus Gnus), an `Ä' from ISO-8859-1 [1] is different than an
> `Ä' from ISO-8859-15 [1].  Thus, when you reply to a message, the quote may
> contain characters from ISO-8859-1.  When you enter characters from
> ISO-8859-15, you'll end up in a buffer that contains characters from
> different charsets.  Therefore Gnus splits the message into ISO-8859-1 and
> ISO-8859-15 parts.  Gnus will prompt you: "A message part needs to be split
> into N charset parts.  Really send?".  Unfortunately users with other news-
> and mailreaders don't like this kind of messages ("Content-Type:
> multipart/mixed").

Well, yes it is exactly my problem but at the beginning I couldn't find out 
what was exactly the origin. But I have checked and the posts I'm answering 
are coded with ISO-8859-15 whereas my own posts have an ISO-8859-1 encoding.


> [1] my.gnus.org has been down the last days.

It's still down.And the other link can't be reached either.

Do you know how to prevent the multipart/mixed encoding and how to come back 
to plain text ? I will correct the erroneous characters by hand.

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