Re: emacs and UTF-8

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.04.2005 um 23:33 schrieb knubee:

> > In case debian uses UTF-8 too for file names: keep that entry!
>
> Which one? (In fact, I think I appropriated many of those settings from
> one of your earlier postings on this topic :-))

(setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)


On your Scheme experience: could be the Swedish text was the whole time 
correctly saved as UTF-8 since you made Emacs act like that. Only Guile 
was in the incorrect environment not able to detect and interpret the 
UTF-8 text. In the corrected environment Guile now could do it right.

These eMail subjects "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=" come from some RFC that 
describes how such a non-7 bit text is saved when transferred over the 
internet. Since mail is still a 7 bit application, because nobody can 
guarantee that there is absolutely no node that only understands 7 bit, 
such encoding has to be done. Our eMail, when it leaves the MUA, is 
encoded as base64 (Emacs can do that too, C-h a base64 RET). And 
decoded when it enters.

Although I have saved eMails that contain lines like these

From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien?= Kirche
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15

To: Diskussionsliste 
=?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr_Mitglieder_von_DANTE_e=2EV=2E?=
Mail-Followup-To: Diskussionsliste 
=?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr_Mitglieder_von_DAN?=
        =?iso-8859-1?Q?TE_e=2EV=2E?= <dante-ev@dante.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Reply-To: 
=?iso-8859-1?q?Diskussionsliste_f=FCr_Mitglieder_von_DANTE_e=2EV=2E?=
List-Id: 
=?iso-8859-1?q?Diskussionsliste_f=FCr_Mitglieder_von_DANTE_e=2EV=2E?=

my Mac OS X eMail programme, just Mail(.app), hides that "header" and 
decodes the =XY codes according to the charset given to the correct 
glyphs (XY is just the hex value of the "ASCII" code of that glyph in 
that encoding). I think you only have to adjust some settings of your 
Mail User Agent. Or switch to another one!

--
Greetings

  Pete

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