From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5355 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrzej Adam Filip Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts Date: 11 Jul 2005 18:30:57 +0200 Organization: It is for me to know and for you to find out. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671087 27083 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:10 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!nemesis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cob156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Original-X-Trace: nemesis.news.tpi.pl 1121099771 29950 83.31.181.156 (11 Jul 2005 16:36:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:36:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Home-Page: http://anfi.homeunix.net/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5497 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5497 Tue Jan 17 17:35:10 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5355 Archived-At: Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: > Andrzej Adam Filip writes: > > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts > > than UTF-8. What is your opinion? > > UTF-7 may be marginally better suited, but personally I prefer an > appropriate fixed-width encoding (in my case mostly ISO-8859-1). In my case it would be iso-8859-2 BUT I would like to * preserve ISO-8859-1 names and surnames * use euro sign -- Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip anfi@priv.onet.pl anfi@xl.wp.pl All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)