Re: Customizing coding priority

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jan 18 2007, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 18.01.2007 um 17:12 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:
>
>> Anyway, what Peter and Tom remark sounds strange. There must be some
>> difference in the umlauts of the two coding systems, at least for
>> Emacs.
>
> Yes, there is in GNU Emacs. The characters don't stand alone, they have some
> encoding attribute. Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 cancels this,  finally.

Your usage of "GNU Emacs" and "Unicode Emacs" here is wrong or at
least misleading, IMHO.  See also (info "(efaq)Difference between
Emacs and XEmacs").

> Probably vm has some restrictions. GNU Emacs 22 won't solve the problem, 

NACK.  `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' and `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode'
are sufficient to solve this problem WRT to iso-8859-{1,15} even in
Emacs 21.[34].

> GNU Emacs 23 might! (I simply gave up and switched to a different
> MUA.)

Even with Emacs 21.4, there are no problems with charsets when using
Gnus.  `rs-ucs-coding-system.el'[1] might be interesting when support
for windows-12xx and/or additional iso-8859 charset (-6, -10, -11,
-13, -16), see the table in [1].

Bye, Reiner.

[1] 
<http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/rs-ucs-coding-system.el>
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