* Displaying different character sets on console
@ 2005-01-26 10:25 David Sumbler
2005-01-26 14:53 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: David Sumbler @ 2005-01-26 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
I run Emacs 21.3 and Gnus v5.10.6 on a utf-8-enabled console (i.e. not
under X).
I have an e-mail which contains some Greek characters. The headers
include the lines:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The default console font on my Fedora Core 2 system is
latarcyrheb-sun16, which does not include Greek characters.
I have tried doing Meta-! setfont gr928a-8x16 and suchlike, but I get an error:
putfont: KDFONTOP: Operation not permitted
What do I need to do to display such a message correctly?
David
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* Re: Displaying different character sets on console
2005-01-26 10:25 Displaying different character sets on console David Sumbler
@ 2005-01-26 14:53 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-01-27 13:16 ` Aidan Kehoe
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2005-01-26 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:25:54 +0000, David wrote:
> I have an e-mail which contains some Greek characters. The headers
> include the lines:
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am curious as to why the headers specify a Japanese charset to
tranfer Greek letters?
"Introduction
This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC822]
and network news [RFC1036] messages in several Japanese networks. It
was first specified by and used in JUNET [JUNET]. The encoding is now
also widely used in Japanese IP communities.
The name given to this encoding is "ISO-2022-JP", which is intended
to be used in the "charset" parameter field of MIME headers (see
[MIME1] and [MIME2])."
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1468.html>
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* Re: Displaying different character sets on console
2005-01-26 14:53 ` Adam Sjøgren
@ 2005-01-27 13:16 ` Aidan Kehoe
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From: Aidan Kehoe @ 2005-01-27 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Adam Sjøgren:
> I am curious as to why the headers specify a Japanese charset to
> tranfer Greek letters?
Because Mule was implemented in a way that’s very friendly to ISO 2022,
which specified a universal character encoding a couple of decades before
Unicode. So the natural Mule way to encode a non-ASCII character in a mail
is to write it using ISO 2022 and to specify iso-2022 as the MIME
charset. (The -jp is defaulted to because Mule was implemented in Japan; it
could equivalently be -kr or -cn.)
Of course, outside East Asia, very little software understands ISO 2022, and
for the sake of recipients’ clients’ it should have used iso-8859-7 or
UTF-8.
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