From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: charset question (Windows-1251 and UTF-8 CJK)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:28:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk6u3g924.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vc9zn33p390.fsf@nospam.com
Gernot Hassenpflug <gh@nospam.com> writes:
[...]
> - Windows-1251 news articles or mail always appears as character
> codes, and I could not find any coding that seems to make it work.
>
> I am confused because I have read that some mail readers (such as mew)
> support this charset, yet I cannnot find out how to make it work. Does
> gnus support this charset independently of emacs, and where can I look
> for help? Google "windows-1251 gnus" and similar turned up nothing I
> could use.
The problems you mention are related to Emacs rather than Gnus.
Emacs from the current CVS provides `windows-1251' by default. For the
released Emacs 21.3 you can put something like this into your .emacs:
(codepage-setup 1251)
Then you get a coding-system named `cp1251'. As I understand it, this
is just meant as another name for `windows-1251'. I have no idea,
though, how complete it is.
> - UTF-8 with CJK characters does not seem to work.
>
> I read in google that UTF-8 is still only partially supported by
> Emacs, so it seems that receiving mail and news in UTF-8 (CJK) is not
> possible for now. Mozilla does fine on this front though.
>
> Are these issues resolved (i.e. reduced to a settings problem) or are
> they still current? (I need to find a work-around)
[...]
Not being able to read any of the involved scripts, I have never paid
much attention to CJK issues. I think that this is settled in the
current CVS. You might want to confirm this before you check it out.
It might be---I honestly just don't know---that you can get CJK with
UTF-8 for Emacs 21.3 by installing mule-ucs. I would not recommend it,
though. I think this path down lies madness; at least that's my
impression from coding system quirks discussed in this newsgroup.
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 3:32 charset question (Windows-1251 and UTF-8 CJK) Gernot Hassenpflug
2004-10-06 15:28 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2004-10-07 3:55 ` zrr
2004-10-12 3:30 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
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