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Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:36:07 +0800

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How could emacs/gnus not recognize this charset, made by cronjobs at a major
hosting provider?

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wow

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> etl.go.jp, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#5458: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:41:25 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> How could emacs/gnus not recognize this charset, made by cronjobs at a major
> hosting provider?

[...]

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968

In what circumstance doesn't Gnus recognise this charset?  It's another
name for "ASCII", and Gnus seems to treat it as such.

That is, when does Gnus say that it's an unknown charset?

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: larsi <at> gnus.org
Cc: 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> etl.go.jp, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#5458: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:25:16 +0800

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
LMI> That is, when does Gnus say that it's an unknown charset?
Check your *Messages* buffer, Lars.
Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968

Pipe the sample message at
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5458#5
into procmail and then read it in gnus.

Seen in
emacs-snapshot:
  Installed: 1:20110628-1

Message #14 received at 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> etl.go.jp, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#5458: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:27:38 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Check your *Messages* buffer, Lars.
> Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968

I wouldn't have asked if I had gotten such a message.  I do not.

*When* do you get such a message?

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Message #19 received at 5458-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: handa <at> etl.go.jp, 5458-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#5458: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:38:03 +0200

Anyway, I just grepped for "Unknown charset", and there was just one
instance -- `mm-charset-to-coding-system' -- so I made that one map
ansi_x3.4 to ASCII.

-- 
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Message #22 received at 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: larsi <at> gnus.org
Cc: 5458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> etl.go.jp, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#5458: Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:53:42 +0800

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
LMI> jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

>> Check your *Messages* buffer, Lars.
>> Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968

LMI> I wouldn't have asked if I had gotten such a message.  I do not.

LMI> *When* do you get such a message?

One only sees it if one just happens to look in the *Messages* buffer.
So the bug is even worse: a message that one never sees.
Maybe it was covered up by some other message too fast.

script(1) ... emacs -nw ... cat -v shows it indeed is put in the minibuffer.
Unknown charset: ansi_x3.4-1968^[[6;38H^[[?12l^[[?25h^[[39;1H^[[?25lStarting new Ispell process

So I'm glad you fixed and closed the bug. However you might want to
check why you didn't see it.

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