Re: Washing Unicode?

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jan 12 2005, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> If your XEmacs has Mule support, and the Mule-UCS package installed, try
> running evaluating (require 'mule-ucs) before running Gnus. (From a cursory
> Google search, there doesn’t appear to be anything preventing the use of
> that package under Windows.)

XEmacs 21.4 on Windows doesn't support MULE at all.  CMIIW.

Maybe Oliver will find Oliver Scholz' hack useful:

,----
| ;;; xegu8-hack.el --- Read UTF-8 articles in Gnus on non-mule XEmacsen
| 
| ;; Copyright (C) 2004 Oliver Scholz
| 
| ;; Author: Oliver Scholz <epameinondas@gmx.de>
| ;; Keywords: i18n
| 
| [...]
| 
| ;;; Commentary:
| 
| ;; "xegu8-hack" stands for "XEmacs/Gnus UTF-8 hack".  There are still
| ;; versions of XEmacs without Mule and thus without support for UTF-8.
| ;; This can be annoying if you are using Gnus on such an XEmacs and
| ;; encounter mail or news articles encoded in UTF-8.
| 
| ;; This package is a hack that replaces UTF-8 characters in the
| ;; article buffer with their Latin-1 counterparts.
| 
| ;; Note that there is no need for such a hack and that you should not
| ;; use it, if you are using GNU Emacs or an XEmacs with Mule.
`----

Oliver Scholz intended to put this file on emacswiki, but by a quick
google search, I could not find it there.  Here is a copy of the file:
http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/xegu-hack.el

Bye, Reiner.
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