Re: Prefer UTF-8 over mac-roman? (was: [Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>] charset=macintosh)

[Kenichi Handa]

Sorry for the late reply on this matter.

Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>, Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:
> The attached message was sent to the Gnus list, but the source of the
> problem is Emacs' coding system priorities.  Emacs prefers mac-roman
> over utf-8 when decoding the text given below.

> I noticed that PROBLEMS in Emacs 21.3 prerelease no longer says that
> Unicode support is not complete (which it did in 21.2), so I assume
> the Unicode support has been completed, or at least the bugs has been
> fixed.

> So, shouldn't UTF-8 be preferred over mac-roman in emacs 21.3?
> Doesn't even Macintosh use UTF-8 now?

I have no idea, I know nothing about Macintosh.  But as the coding
system mac-roman doesn't have `mime-charset' property, I think Gnus
should prefer some other codings that have mime-charset property.
Even if mac-roman is used, at least there should be a warning like the
way sendmail-send-it does via select-message-coding-system.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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