From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities'
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:40:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9tzxnm75o.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sldbdc7e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 12 Feb 2007 09\:14\:45 +0100")
On Mon, Feb 12 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> nowadays a lot of GNU/Linux systems have set up an utf-8 locale by
> default. Now the default value of
> mm-coding-system-priorities is
[...]
> It would now seem appropriate to make mm-coding-system-priorities
> effectively default to '(iso-8859-1 utf-8), namely first try
> iso-8859-1 before going over to utf-8.
>
> I am not sure whether this change is something that should be done at
> mm-coding-system-priorities level or in the English language
> environment, though. But since it is reasonable in an utf-8 locale
> that files that are read and written are primarily considered utf-8,
> it really might be appropriate to confine the Latin-1 preference to
> mail and news interchange.
>
> But there it is _definitely_ preferable.
I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale
prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. Anyhow, as
mm-coding-system-priorities is customizable, I don't see any need to
change the default now.
We might want to try David's suggestion in Gnus CVS (trunk).
Opinions? (Cc-ing ding)
Bye, Reiner.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-12 8:14 Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' David Kastrup
2007-02-15 21:40 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-02-15 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-16 20:04 ` Reiner Steib
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