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

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> 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?
> [...]
> 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;
> 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? Is the inconsistence normal or there's a way
> to work it out, and how?


Jason Rumney wrote:

> the problem is likely to be with the
> webmail server software, and it will need to be fixed there. The
> server is likely wrongly assuming all input is ISO-8859-1. It is a
> common problem since the original authors of the HTTP RFCs specified
> ISO-8859-1 as the default character set.


Thanks!!!
I just created an account with gmail and repeated the experiment
using gmail as webmail,
and everything went well: now I can send and read chinese characters
with both gnus and mozilla navigator.

The help from this mailing list was really precious:
thanks indeed,
Rodolfo