Dave, for some reason every time I try to read one of your postings, it tells me
Invalid coding system: mac-roman
Aparently, the Mac uses a non-standard encoding for the upper 128 single-byte characters.
I have to research this and try to find a solution. I just wanted you to know, because others may have similar issues.
No, not true
Just checked the news spool on my system. Dave's posts don't include "mac-roman" anywhere in them. I'd guess that your newsreader is trying to make a guess and getting it wrong.
His key details seem to be: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Macintosh Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit which don't raise any flags in my weary brain.
Same thing - According to
Why don't your headers reveal your newsreader?
I'd suggest the problem's at your end/ It certainly isn't at mine. And with you hiding everything, there's no way for anyone to troubleshoot it.
And, sorry, I have no interest in troubleshooting your unknown news reader for you.
Maxwell, if your newsreader shows something other than that, it's because your newsreader is AFU.
Roger that.
I use GNUS on a Linux system.
That's glorb that is doing it. On my old NNTP server (rr.com), it published the version of emacs/GNUS I use. emacs 22.1.1 GNUS v5.11
I posted a question on gnu.emacs.gnus today - hoping for a response. I tried to find a solution a few months ago. No luck. I'll try again. Apparently it's not a common problem
So both your news provider and your newsreader are hooped.
Good luck sorting it out.
The only problem is that I can't read your posts using emacs in a text window. (I don't always have access to a remote XWindows client). I have to be on the local LAN and use Xemacs. So it's not that big a deal.
The rest of us can read his posts just fine; suggest you evaluate the implications of that regarding *your* difficulty. :-)
It's not really that important to me. I only mentioned it in case others had the problem.
With this client I have four options for transliteration:
None (my current setting) ISO 8559-1 ISO 8559-15 UTF8
I've set this message to UTF8. Let me know if it makes a difference.
UTF8 is fine! It's one of the standards. If it makes no difference to you, it would improve your readability by others (I may be the only one.....). Thanks!
Everything's going unicode anyway, it's no problem for me to switch the defaults here.
Merry Christmas!
Got to love that editor!
Been in use for 20 years or thereabouts. I finally got a manual one day when I needed to cut columns and then paste.
Win tools are great for rows or lines.
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