From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:20:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aciql4ma.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygfr7c32g4s.fsf@invalid.com>
>> > (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
>>
>> If you have problems that seem to be fixed by the above, please use
>> M-x report-emacs-bug RET to report them.
> Ever since Emacs 20 I have had the following lines in my .emacs:
> (setq default-enable-multibyte-characters nil)
> (set-language-environment "Latin-1")
> Otherwise I was constantly fighting problems with coding systems.
Notice the use of the past tense in your above sentence. Emacs-20
introduced problems with coding-systems, of course, that was unavoidable.
Many years have passed since then: third-party packages have been fixed,
defaults and heuristics have been improved.
Please try it again.
> I was stuck on Emacs 19.34 for years until I discovered that those two
> lines reliably put Emacs V20 and later into unibyte mode.
You could have read the NEWS file (C-h N) which would have told you
the same.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-05 10:26 Peter Simons
2005-09-05 10:47 ` Reiner Steib
2005-09-05 11:21 ` Peter Simons
2005-09-05 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-06 0:29 ` Mark Hood
2005-09-06 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-09-06 4:41 ` Ivan Boldyrev
2005-09-06 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-06 12:37 ` Peter Simons
2005-09-06 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-06 14:01 ` Peter Simons
2005-09-09 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-09 8:21 ` Peter Simons
2005-09-09 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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