Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1

[Stefan Monnier]

>> [...] unless you remove the above line from your Emacs,
>> you're likely to bump into an increasing number of
>> annoyances.

> The number of annoyances I bumped into with multi-byte mode
> enabled was much higher than without it.

I believe you.  That's why the unibyte mode was introduced: because the
multibyte mode was not robust enough yet.  We're getting to the point where
the multibyte mode has fewer problems than the unibyte mode.

> Now, I don't recall whether I mentioned it already, but there is
> a curious problem in Gnus, namely the fact that it uses the name
> "latin1-iso-8859-1" to designate the encoding the rest of the
> world calls "iso-8859-1". I realize that fixing this problem
> requires re-writing Gnus from scratch, more or less, but it is
> not going to become less of an effort by discussing a completely
> different topic for the next two weeks.

Why not post a bug report?


        Stefan