On Thu, Sep 28 2006, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > Passer By <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does everyone see how there are all these \222 \223 \224 etc
No, because the current Gnus development version (the next release will have it too) has `mm-charset-override-alist' ,----[ <f1> v mm-charset-override-alist RET ] | mm-charset-override-alist is a variable defined in `mm-util'. | Its value is | ((iso-8859-1 . windows-1252)) | | Documentation: | A mapping from undesired charset names to their replacement. | | You may add pairs like (iso-8859-1 . windows-1252) here, | i.e. treat iso-8859-1 as windows-1252. windows-1252 is a | superset of iso-8859-1. | | You can customize this variable. `---- (As Emacs 21 doesn't support windows-1252, users of Emacs may look at <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/rs-ucs-coding-system.el>). >> how do i get them to look like the normal ',", etc. chars | User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 In Gnus 5.9, you may use `W d': ,----[ (info "(gnus)Article Washing") ] | `W d' | Treat M****s*** sm*rtq**t*s according to | `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' (`gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes'). | Note that this function guesses whether a character is a | sm*rtq**t* or not, so it should only be used interactively. | | Sm*rtq**t*s are M****s***'s unilateral extension to the character | map in an attempt to provide more quoting characters. If you see | something like `\222' or `\264' where you're expecting some kind of | apostrophe or quotation mark, then try this wash. `---- > Which they are not. > > ' is \047, not \222 > " is \042, not \223 > > \222 is ’ > \223 is “ > \224 is ” Maybe you need to add entries to `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' as well; I don't know if these were included in 5.9. > The problem comes from the sender who indicates the wrong encoding for > their characters. Notably, from MS-Windows programs who announce > ISO-8859-1 encoding when they include WINDOWS-1252 characters. You're right: >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
