From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5645 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:20:08 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87aciql4ma.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> References: <87k6hvpevv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671338 28288 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:37 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!atl-c03.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uM60rXSrno4zmvE1SEo3C7JYM5g= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.49.81.90 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1126012808 70.49.81.90 (Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:20:08 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:20:08 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5787 Original-Lines: 27 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5787 Tue Jan 17 17:35:37 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5645 Archived-At: >> > (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