From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undecided vs utf-8
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:28:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimTee_feX69bSsr_dYHRFmntQJG-1sVpR9Z6mCx@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sjzg42d5.fsf@gnu.org>
2010/11/5 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:32:02 +0100
>>
>> The use case that made me look into this -- erc -- is somewhat special.
>> The irc protocol does no charset tagging, and some clients send some
>> charsets, and some send others, which is why erc uses `undecided' as the
>> default coding system. Typically on a channel you'll see somebody using
>> a local (iso-8859-* is popular) charset, and others using utf-8.
>
> How do other erc clients solve this problem?
>
>
rcirc uses utf-8 for both encoding and decoding by default, letting
the user override these settings for specific channels using
rcirc-coding-system-alist.
--
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 22:27 undecided vs utf-8 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-04 22:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-05 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-05 2:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-11-05 2:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 4:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-11-05 13:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-05 13:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-05 12:28 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2010-11-05 12:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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