Re: [OT] Inconsistence between emacs gnus and mozilla with chinese characters [Was: From a newbie: Mule-UCS installation and configuration]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodolfo Medina" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:13 PM
Subject: [OT] Inconsistence between emacs gnus and mozilla with chinese 
characters [Was: From a newbie: Mule-UCS installation and configuration]


> Excuse if I'm posting a subject that is not properly concerning
> mule-ucs problems: I couldn't get a solution from anywhere up to now.
> Maybe someone from this ML might provide help.
>
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> I want to use gnus as my mail agent and mozilla as web browser.
>> I did experiments and noticed that the two are apparently
>> inconsistent as concerned with chinese characters. I.e.:
>>
>> 1) I can properly send and receive mails
>>    (containing chinese characters input via scim) using emacs gnus;
>> 2) I can properly input and read chinese characters
>>    in mozilla navigator once I've selected
>>    View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8);
>>
>> but:
>>
>> 1) if I compose and send to myself an e-mail via mozilla navigator
>>    and collect it with gnus I can't read chinese characters;

Send mail via mozilla navigator? you mean send mail via some webmail?

>> 2) vice versa, if I compose and send an e-mail via gnus
>>    and try to read it within Internet with mozilla navigator
>>    I can't read chinese characters.
>> Any idea about this problem?
>> The same happens if I select *any* other chinese encoding system 
>> featured by
>> mozilla navigator.
>> Besides,
>>
>> 1) if I compose and send to myself an e-mail via mozilla navigator
>>    and collect it with MicroSoft Outlook I can't read chinese 
>> characters;
>> 2) if I compose and send an e-mail via gnus
>>    and try to read it with MS Outlook I *can* properly
>>    read chinese characters.

Can you provide the locale setting you are using?
It seemed that both gnus and mozilla mail & news send your mail with 
wrong charactor encoding(iso8859-1). But gnus do it in 8bit 
mode(information loseless), mozilla do it in 7bit mode(with information 
losing).

> I downloaded and freshly installed the latest release of mozilla 
> navigator,
> but the problem remains.
> Any suggestion about how to repair the mozilla broken charset support?

Set a default send encoding method & charset if you always send Chinese 
mail. Or, you should chose a right encoding method & charset after 
compose/reply  a new message and just *before* type in any string..

Regards
FKtPp