From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5661 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: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:14:13 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87slwelw24.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> References: <87k6hvpevv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> <87y86ajpr3.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 1138671349 28354 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:38 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.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: sha1:9yPygS6Xsg74xMtdBoN4wFG3ZBg= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.33.77 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1126239254 67.71.33.77 (Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:14:14 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:14:14 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5803 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5803 Tue Jan 17 17:35:38 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5661 Archived-At: >> [...] 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