From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:14:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slwelw24.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x77jdufg7o.fsf@write-only.cryp.to>
>> [...] unless you remove the above line from your Emacs,
>> you're likely to bump into an increasing number of
>> annoyances.
> The number of annoyances I bumped into with multi-byte mode
> enabled was much higher than without it.
I believe you. That's why the unibyte mode was introduced: because the
multibyte mode was not robust enough yet. We're getting to the point where
the multibyte mode has fewer problems than the unibyte mode.
> Now, I don't recall whether I mentioned it already, but there is
> a curious problem in Gnus, namely the fact that it uses the name
> "latin1-iso-8859-1" to designate the encoding the rest of the
> world calls "iso-8859-1". I realize that fixing this problem
> requires re-writing Gnus from scratch, more or less, but it is
> not going to become less of an effort by discussing a completely
> different topic for the next two weeks.
Why not post a bug report?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-09 4:14 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
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 [this message]
2005-09-09 8:21 ` Peter Simons
2005-09-09 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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