From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: undecided vs utf-8 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:10:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83sjzg42d5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288944679 19394 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2010 08:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 05 09:11:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHOD-0007Oy-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:11:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PEHOC-0007iB-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60999 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PEHNm-0007i6-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHNj-0001aQ-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:46649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHNj-0001a9-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LBE00500JVEEY00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:10:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.126]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LBE0054RK1SBW40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:10:41 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132392 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:32:02 +0100 > > The use case that made me look into this -- erc -- is somewhat special. > The irc protocol does no charset tagging, and some clients send some > charsets, and some send others, which is why erc uses `undecided' as the > default coding system. Typically on a channel you'll see somebody using > a local (iso-8859-* is popular) charset, and others using utf-8. How do other erc clients solve this problem?