Re: Inconsistence between emacs gnus and mozilla with chinese characters [solved]

["Rodolfo Medina" <romeomedina@libero.it>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I want to use gnus as my mail agent and mozilla as web browser.
> I did experiments and noticed that the two are apparently
> inconsistent as concerned with chinese characters. I.e.:
>
> 1) I can properly send and receive mails 
>    (containing chinese characters input via 'scim') using emacs gnus;
> 2) I can properly input and read chinese characters 
>    in mozilla navigator once I've selected 
>    View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8);
>
> but:
>
> 1) if I compose and send to myself an e-mail via web mail with
>    mozilla navigator and collect it with gnus, 
>    I can't read chinese characters;
> 2) vice versa, if I compose and send an e-mail via gnus 
>    and try to read it within Internet with mozilla navigator
>    I can't read chinese characters.
>
> Any idea about this problem?
> Is the inconsistence normal or there's a way
> to work it out, and how?


David Kastrup wrote:

> It completely obvious that your mailer is either lying about the
> encoding that it uses, or is omitting the encoding completely in the
> headers of the mail, causing the mailing list software to add a wrong
> guess.



Thanks!!!
I just created an account with gmail and repeated the experiment
using gmail as webmail,
and everything went well: now I can send and read chinese characters
with both gnus and mozilla navigator.

Your help was precious,
cheers,
Rodolfo