Re: Turning HTML character references into something readable?

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Apr 27 2003, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:
>
>> Actually that literal seems to be in some JIS encoding on my side,

Same here:

,----[ `C-u C-x =' ]
|   character: [ removed "mirrored `R'" ] (0151701, 54209, 0xd3c1)
|     charset: japanese-jisx0208 (JISX0208.1983/1990 Japanese Kanji: ISO-IR-87)
|  code point: 39 65
|      syntax: word
|    category: Y:Cyrillic characters of 2-byte character sets   j:Japanese  
|            |:While filling, we can break a line at this character.  
| buffer code: 0x92 0xA7 0xC1
|   file code: ESC 24 42 27 41 (encoded by coding system iso-2022-jp-2)
|        font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-140-JISX0208.1983-0
`----

What does `C-u C-x =' say on that character before sending?

>> while &#1071; indicates Unicode.
>
> Gnus decided to turn it into JIS; initially it was Unicode/UTF-8.

I don't think that Gnus is able to convert UTF-8 to JIS.  Running
`find-coding-systems-region' in your message shows that Emacs 21.3
doesn't list any UTF coding-system.  This is basically what Gnus does
in the function `mm-find-mime-charset-region' in `mm-util.el'.

>>   (char-to-string (decode-char 'ucs 1071))

When I insert this char into the buffer...

  (insert (char-to-string (decode-char 'ucs 1071))); Я

... and use...

  (setq mm-coding-system-priorities nil) ;; default

... I get iso-8859-5.

With my setting of...

  (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-latin-1 iso-latin-9 mule-utf-8))

... I get utf-8.

Bye, Reiner.
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