Re: \225 and so on

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Richard,


Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I often get files that are basically plain ASCII but have a few of
> Microsoft's special characters such as \222 and \225.

That's almost always cp1252, often mislabeled as iso-8859-1 or
us-ascii, or even unlabeled.  I use these settings in GNUS to cope:

 (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets
       '(unknown-8bit x-unknown us-ascii iso-8859-1))
 (setq gnus-default-charset 'cp1252)

I.e. I disable using the MIME parameters for us-ascii and iso-8859-1
and set the default to cp1252 instead.  This has worked fine so far
for me.  Real us-ascii or iso-8859-1 messages don't have a problem
with this, as cp1252 is a proper superset of iso-8859-1.

cp1252 is in lisp/international/code-pages.el in CVS Emacs. 


so long, benny