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Broken charset=utf-16be articles with Gnus and Emacs 21.3
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Broken charset=utf-16be articles with Gnus and Emacs 21.3 |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:11:11 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2.95 (gnu/linux) |
In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2003-03-19 on ni
configured using `configure --prefix=/import/xtra/emacs/RC'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.ISO_8859-1
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: C
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Gnus v5.9.0
GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2003-03-19 on ni
200 news.uni-ulm.de DNEWS Version 5.6f3,, S0, posting OK
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
Actions to reproduce the bug:
- Start Gnus `M-x gnus RET' and compose an article `a'.
- Switch to TeX input method: `M-x set-input-method RET TeX RET'
- Enter some characters:
\sigma ä (a with diaeresis) \omega
(Note: \sigma and \omega (without ä) is not sufficient.)
.. *or* ...
\sigma \omega \alpha \o \int
- Preview `M-m P' (or `C-u M-m P') or send the message.
The preview (and the outgoing message) will be encoded with
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-16be" and it will not be
readable with Gnus and most other MUAs or newsreaders.
I've been told (-> Simon Krahnke) that the result isn't even correct
UTF-16.
Expected behavior:
- The article should be encoded with
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8".
Note: I'm sending this message with a different version of Gnus, so
don't be confused when looking at my User-Agent header. FWIW, the
same bug also happens with Oort Gnus from CVS. With Emacs 21.1 / Gnus
5.9.0 [1] and with Emacs 21.2 / Oort Gnus v0.17 [2] we have the
expected behavior [1]. Therefore I think this is a bug in Emacs 21.3,
but I'm not sure (Cc-ing bugs@gnus.org).
Additional confusion: Replying to [1] (with full citation), I get
utf-8 [3], but copying the non-Latin charaters into this buffer
results in utf-16be in the preview. I also get utf-16be, when I reply
to [2] and delete the lines containing the word "Blindtext".
Bye, Reiner.
[1] Reported by Simon Krahnke: <news:8765q3nwm9.fsf@xts.gnuu.de>
(Newsgroups: de.comm.software.gnus)
[2] Reported by Mark Trettin:
<news:dcsg.m3of3vcgwr.fsf@beldin.mt743742.dialup.rwth-aachen.de>
(Newsgroups: de.comm.software.gnus)
[3] <news:v9d6kaig3n.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
(Newsgroups: de.comm.software.gnus)
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