Re: 21.1.50; [Gnus] Broken characters in iso-8859-15 formatted emails

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Thomas Christensen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:41:06AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > In article <address@hidden>, Thomas Christensen <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I must apologize for the noise.  It appears to be that Gentoo is
> > > hardcoded to only generate iso-8859-1 fonts in modular X.
> > 
> > Does it mean that the problem was solved by installing
> > iso-8859-15 fonts?

> Yes, it solved the problem completely.  I puzzles me a bit though,
> that Emacs is the only application that could not handle the
> iso-8859-15 without these fonts, and also how the others applications
> *did* handle this.  But I know little of these matters.

Emacs still doesn't uses Unicode character codes internally,
thus iso-8859-1 characters and iso-8859-15 characters are
treated differently.  In many cases, user don't notice this
difference because they are automatically converted from/to
each other.  The emacs-unicode-2 branch of Emacs CVS
repository does uses Unicode internally and doesn't have
such a problem.

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Kenichi Handa
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