Re: 21.1.50; [Gnus] Broken characters in iso-8859-15 formatted emails

[Thomas Christensen <christensenthomas@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 04:38:57PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <20070910072629.GA12677@foobar>, Thomas Christensen <christensenthomas@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, it solved the problem completely.  I puzzles me a bit though,
> > that Emacs is the only application that could not handle the
> > iso-8859-15 without these fonts, and also how the others applications
> > *did* handle this.  But I know little of these matters.
> 
> Emacs still doesn't uses Unicode character codes internally,
> thus iso-8859-1 characters and iso-8859-15 characters are
> treated differently.  In many cases, user don't notice this
> difference because they are automatically converted from/to
> each other.  The emacs-unicode-2 branch of Emacs CVS
> repository does uses Unicode internally and doesn't have
> such a problem.

Thanks for the explanation.

		Thomas