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* Re: How to avoid utf-8 when dealing with iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15
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@ 2002-10-05 14:06 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2002-10-05 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Sat, Oct 05 2002, Fredrik Staxeng wrote:

> The way GNUS handles character sets mean that you can be posting in UTF-8
> without knowing it. If you reply to a message marked as iso-8859-15,
> and you have keyboard-encoding-system set to iso-8859-1, the outgoing
> meesage will be in UTF-8! 
[...]
> If you want to follow the custom in swnet.* of posting in iso-8859-1,

Does <URL:http://my.gnus.org/Members/rsteib/howto_unify/> help you?

> put the following in your .emacs
>
> (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-15 'iso-latin-1)

I wouldn't recommend this, because of the other differences between
Latin-1 and Latin-9.

Bye, Reiner.
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