Re: Help with this article with all the \XXX

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Sep 28 2006, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Passer By <sender@sender.send> writes:
>> Does everyone see how there are all these \222 \223 \224 etc

No, because the current Gnus development version (the next release
will have it too) has `mm-charset-override-alist'

,----[ <f1> v mm-charset-override-alist RET ]
| mm-charset-override-alist is a variable defined in `mm-util'.
| Its value is 
| ((iso-8859-1 . windows-1252))
| 
| Documentation:
| A mapping from undesired charset names to their replacement.
| 
| You may add pairs like (iso-8859-1 . windows-1252) here,
| i.e. treat iso-8859-1 as windows-1252.  windows-1252 is a
| superset of iso-8859-1.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

(As Emacs 21 doesn't support windows-1252, users of Emacs may look at
<http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/rs-ucs-coding-system.el>).

>> how do i get them to look like the normal ',", etc. chars

| User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4

In Gnus 5.9, you may use `W d':

,----[ (info "(gnus)Article Washing") ]
| `W d'
|      Treat M****s*** sm*rtq**t*s according to
|      `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' (`gnus-article-treat-dumbquotes').
|      Note that this function guesses whether a character is a
|      sm*rtq**t* or not, so it should only be used interactively.
| 
|      Sm*rtq**t*s are M****s***'s unilateral extension to the character
|      map in an attempt to provide more quoting characters.  If you see
|      something like `\222' or `\264' where you're expecting some kind of
|      apostrophe or quotation mark, then try this wash.
`----

> Which they are not.
>
> ' is \047, not \222
> " is \042, not \223
>
> \222 is ’
> \223 is “
> \224 is ” 

Maybe you need to add entries to `gnus-article-dumbquotes-map' as
well; I don't know if these were included in 5.9.

> The problem comes from the sender who indicates the wrong encoding for
> their characters.  Notably, from MS-Windows programs who announce
> ISO-8859-1 encoding when they include WINDOWS-1252 characters.

You're right:

>> news:10vih2p0prbvpm5jv99rkpfnlji4jpc2vs@4ax.com
==> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Bye, Reiner.
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