Re: Gnus reply encoding

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Jason Rumney wrote:

> Gnus v5.11
> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2004-10-20 on TONKOTSU-RAMEN

Your computer looks delicious. ;-)

> In a Japanese locale, replying to a mail with Latin-1 characters sends
> the mail with a charset of iso-2022-jp-2. It should use iso-8859-1
> which is much more widely recognized.

That is caused by the value of `mm-coding-system-priorities'.
It defaults to

(iso-2022-jp iso-2022-jp-2 shift_jis iso-8859-1 utf-8)

in the Japanese language environment.  The background is:
euc-japan or shift_jis is preferred for files but iso-2022-jp is
usually used for mail and news for the traditional reason in
Japan.  The value may be suitable to users who mainly use
Japanese.  However, I modified it personally into

(iso-8859-1 iso-2022-jp iso-2022-jp-2 shift_jis utf-8)

because I sometimes write English messages.

> Adding this £ sign should be enough to make this message display the
> bug.

By the modified value as mentioned above, iso-2022-jp-2 will not
be chosen if there are only ascii text and £ sign.  I'm going to
change the default value in Japan into the same value as I'm
using, later.

Thank you.