Re: Article buffer mode-line charset indicator shows windows-1252

[Neil Woods]

On Fri, Feb 17 2006, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>> In <874q2yh2x5.fsf@phun.phasmic.org> Neil Woods wrote:
>
>> I'm currently running the latest Debian packaged emacs-snapshot,
>> together with the latest No Gnus (checked out today).
>
>> The character set indicator on the mode-line in the article buffer
>> incorrectly indicates that the article displayed is a windows-1252
>> buffer (it show a "*", which the tooltip indicates as windows-1252).
>
>> This happens in nearly all cases, even articles with specific MIME
>> headers indicating, e.g., 
>> Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> and articles with no MIME headers.
>
> The latest Gnus treats iso-8859-1 as windows-1252 by default.
> Because it is thought that windows-1252 is a superset of
> iso-8859-1.  Actually, some articles use windows-1252 even if
> they are labeled with iso-8859-1.  So, Gnus' default will be
> useful to decode such articles correctly.  Though you can
> invalidate it by: (setq mm-charset-override-alist nil)

Excellent! Many thanks for your quick response.
-- 
Neil.
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