cyrillic newsgroups in Gnus (was: Soliciting Recommendations for a Mail Client)

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Apr 08 2008, Dmitri Minaev wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>>  Huh?  You don't need any setup with regards to charsets in Gnus at all
>>  (at least if you use a current version of Emacs, i.e. Emacs 22).  If
>>  some special complicated settings are necessary, please report it as a
>>  bug.
>
> It's not a bug. Or, even if it is, it's a conceptual bug of the
> Russophone internet. There are three encodings used for Cyrillic
> alphabet, besides UTF-8. Some newsgroups require me to use one of them
> and some mail recipients want me to send mail in other encodings. My
> .gnus file sets 9 variables and calls 1 function to make Gnus work as
> I want it to. I confess that this setup was inherited from Emacs 19 or
> 20, if my memory serves well, but I'm afraid of changing anything :).
> In .wl file, the equivalent setup required 4 variables and 1 function
> call.

Unless you show us the code, it's hard to tell if it can be done more
simple or if its not required anymore.  If your interested, let's
discuss this on <ding@gnus.org>.

Bye, Reiner.
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