From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Hood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1 Date: 05 Sep 2005 17:29:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87k6hvpevv.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 1138671335 28273 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:36 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:29:40 -0500 Original-Sender: mark@Sappho Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.66.151 Original-X-Trace: sv3-G9puGoxitmm7YTnZ6wa4Pvnc4MbXhHmyQ1NbH+VJnyARpNPPcsWnuNZiwNQrQRObABQSKXzkXRQQtgN!YphBbMaaXaR2DOFcLu8BL8LAJ1RqVRT4NJLe6CAcxvM0ZDg1R8U+DZmBfo3PsmAliB5T3I3sHTDu!K6UItY8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5782 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5782 Tue Jan 17 17:35:36 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5640 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil) > > If you have problems that seem to be fixed by the above, please use > M-x report-emacs-bug RET to report them. Ever since Emacs 20 I have had the following lines in my .emacs: (setq default-enable-multibyte-characters nil) (set-language-environment "Latin-1") Otherwise I was constantly fighting problems with coding systems. I often work directly with binary files, but even files I thought were supposed to be plain unibyte text would often cause Emacs V20 and later to ask me strange and confusing questions when reading and writing them. Much of the large library of Emacs lisp I had developed for myself was broken due to multibyte issues. Really, it was much easier to put those two lines in my .emacs then to try to sort out all those issues in attempts to make reproducible and understandable bug reports. My usage of Emacs is always within the context of European languages, so unibyte mode works very well for me. I was stuck on Emacs 19.34 for years until I discovered that those two lines reliably put Emacs V20 and later into unibyte mode. -- Mark Hood