Re: mime encoded subject is not decoded correctly

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Oct 19 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> Hm, again my lisp knowledge is to limited, but precisely are I
> supposed to do just putting the above unless lines, in gnus (this did
> not work), add some appropriate lines in the relevant hooks?

Put the following in your ~/.gnus.el file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(require 'mm-util)
;; cp1252 is no valid mime-charset, but it's used in the wild (should be
;; windows-1252).  Let's treat it as windows-1252 or iso-8859-1.
(unless (mm-coding-system-p 'cp1252)
  (if (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-1252)
      (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist '(cp1252 . windows-1252))
    (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist '(cp1252 . iso-8859-1))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

After starting Gnus, `C-h v mm-charset-synonym-alist RET' should show
you an entry for cp1252 and the subject should be decoded correctly.

If not, it's probably because of XEmacs/nomule.  Maybe someone with
XEmacs knowledge can look into `mm-charset-to-coding-system'.  (Maybe
ask on c.e.x?)

>     Reiner> BTW, is this a silly virus waring by a broken mailer?
> NO, [...]

I should refresh my Spanish course.  :-)

Bye, Reiner.

PS: Maybe you can turn off the strange filling of the citations.
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