Re: charset question (Windows-1251 and UTF-8 CJK)

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

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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