From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5378 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Sumbler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Changing charset for posting news Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:12:49 +0100 Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) Message-ID: References: <4nbr57naf1.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671104 27164 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:12 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool03.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yzAeUxNNNk398oXEdEHoneXAcsI= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8d65a950.ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=2>l9LBXJf;cclJXjQ^Ibmnigd3Y`7Rb;nYZmCHj47lfeWZP3d05S Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, david@nospam.co.uk wrote: > >> Although it has not caused a problem until recently, my use of UTF-8 >> and "quoted printable" has caused problems in a newsgroup which I >> recently started using. Basically, I have been told in no uncertain >> terms to avoid them. >> >> However, I am unclear how to change this, although I have read section >> 3.19 of the Gnus Manual. >> >> How do I ensure that, when posting news, my messages are sent in >> ISO-8859-1, and avoid "quoted printable"? > > You can test this on a private group - no need to send test messages > to the 'troubled' newsgroup (UTF-8 is here to stay :) > > Hit `G c' on the group that you want to customize. Set the preferred > charset to iso-8859-1. Save. That should do it. The Gnus manual > should have more information on this - I don't use it myself, so the > manual is the authoritative source. Strange: I have tried this, having commented out in .gnus the lines suggested by Aidan, and it doesn't work! Despite having specified iso-8859-1, as you suggest, messages I send to the fr.test group still are sent as UTF-8 and quoted printable. David -- David Sumbler Please reply with a followup to the newsgroup. However, if you _really_ want to send me an e-mail, replace "nospam" in my address with "aeolia".