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Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities'
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities' |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:40:19 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, Feb 12 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> nowadays a lot of GNU/Linux systems have set up an utf-8 locale by
> default. Now the default value of
> mm-coding-system-priorities is
[...]
> It would now seem appropriate to make mm-coding-system-priorities
> effectively default to '(iso-8859-1 utf-8), namely first try
> iso-8859-1 before going over to utf-8.
>
> I am not sure whether this change is something that should be done at
> mm-coding-system-priorities level or in the English language
> environment, though. But since it is reasonable in an utf-8 locale
> that files that are read and written are primarily considered utf-8,
> it really might be appropriate to confine the Latin-1 preference to
> mail and news interchange.
>
> But there it is _definitely_ preferable.
I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale
prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news. Anyhow, as
mm-coding-system-priorities is customizable, I don't see any need to
change the default now.
We might want to try David's suggestion in Gnus CVS (trunk).
Opinions? (Cc-ing ding)
Bye, Reiner.
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