From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois_Fleuret?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Default coding system ? Date: 03 Dec 2003 13:22:56 +0100 Organization: I.N.R.I.A Rocquencourt Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070456551 22996 80.91.224.253 (3 Dec 2003 13:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 14:02:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARWeD-0008Hj-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:02:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARXZK-0000pq-Pr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:01:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!jussieu.fr!univ-angers.fr!ciril.fr!cines.fr!unice.fr!news.cma.fr!news-sop.inria.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,gnus.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wasabi.inria.fr Original-X-Trace: news-rocq.inria.fr 1070454181 9135 128.93.23.201 (3 Dec 2003 12:23:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@inria.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:23:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Attribution: FF X-Url: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~fleuret User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118942 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14883 Hi, I read my mail with gnus, and from time to time, especially with spam mails, gnus asks for a coding system with the following warning ,---- | These default coding systems were tried to encode text | in the buffer ` *temp*': | iso-latin-1 | However, each of them encountered these problematic characters: | iso-latin-1: ¡ ¡ ¡ Ë Î Ì å Ë Î Ì ... | The first problematic character is at point in the displayed buffer, | and C-u C-x = will give information about it. | | Select one of the following safe coding systems, or edit the buffer: | utf-8 | Or specify any other coding system | on your risk of losing the problematic characters. `---- I looked for a list of default coding systems with apropos-value "iso-latin-1" but could not figure what list to change ... And this coding system issue is such a mess that I can not find the courage to go deeper in the documentations. Any idea ? Thanks in advance, -- François Fleuret