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Subject: Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:32:00 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 12 2004, Artem Baguinski wrote:

> Jørn Helge B. Dahl <jornd@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
[...]
>> I have a UTF-8-enabled locale, and I use
>>
>>   (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>   (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>   (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>   (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>   (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>
> i think just having utf-8 locale is enough, 

Often people change too many of the *-coding-system-* stuff without
being aware of the consequences and run into problems later.  Usually
it's enough to set the systems locale or use
`set-language-environment' in Emacs.

> because [having used emacs / gnus only a week and not knowing much
> configuration options yet] i simply pasted the fragment with unicode
> arrows into my .gnus and it worked right away.

This depends only on the coding used for reading the .gnus.el file
(using a cookie as suggested, or putting the Unicode arrows stuff in a
separate file including a cookie).  

The locale and coding settings in Emacs are independent of this.  You
can use Unicode arrows in the summary with any locale and coding
system settings (e.g. I use a Latin-1 locale).

> hmm... that sounds useful: many of my russian friends prefer letters
> in koi8, i guess i can make it 
>
>   (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-1 koi-8 utf-8))
>
> then... or i have to find how to say "koi8" in emacsish...

In the Summary buffer, `1 g koi TAB TAB' will give you a list of
available charsets.  I guess you want "koi8-r".  In
`mm-coding-system-priorities' you can use MIME charsets (in Gnus 5.10,
not in earlier Oort versions and 5.8/5.9) or Emacs coding systems.

Bye, Reiner.
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