Re: [Scim-user] Re: From a newbie: problems in running scim

[Rodolfo M. <rom...@li...>]

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=20
>    (containing chinese characters input via scim) using emacs gnus;
> 2) I can properly input and read chinese characters=20
>    in mozilla navigator once I've selected=20
>    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=20
>    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=20
> 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=20
>    and try to read it with MS Outlook I *can* properly=20
>    read chinese characters.
>
> So, the following interactions work fine:
> gnus -> gnus; mozilla navigator -> mozilla navigator; gnus -> MS =
Outlook,
> whereas the following do not properly work:
> gnus -> mozilla navigator; mozilla navigator -> gnus;
> mozilla navigator -> MS Outlook.
> But I'm not interested in using MS Outlook, I just did a trial with =
it.
> I'm interested in using gnus and mozilla navigator or, in place of =
mozilla,
> some linux web browser that `agrees' with gnus in displaying chinese =
characters
> input via scim.
> Can you, Yukiko, or anyone else from this mailing list provide help or
> suggestion about this matter? Is the inconsistence normal or there's a =
way
> to work it out, and how?
> Let's do the experiment: I'm composing the present message with gnus;
> then I'll send to this list a second message composed with mozilla =
navigator,
> so that listers can see themselves what is displayed in what.


Ming Hua wrote:

> Your mozilla mail setting is broken.  You mail label itself as latin1
> encoding while the actual content is (apparently) UTF-8.
>
> The following line is in the header of this mail:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Diso-8859-1
>
> (FYI:  I use mutt in an UTF-8 locale, I can read your mail from gnus
> just fine, but your mail from mozilla looks like above.)


Rodolfo:

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



Ming Hua:

> mm, I don't use Mozilla Mail.  But just looking at the preference
> window, doesn't the ``Character Encoding'' option in Mail & Newsgroups
> -> Composition help?  (I am using Mozilla 1.8a6 if that matters).


I don't use Mozilla Mail either:=20
as I wrote above, I want to use Mozilla as web browser=20
and Emacs gnus as mail agent.=20
Within Mozilla, before reading, composing or sending a message=20
containing chinese characters I select:
View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8),
but the problem remains.

Any other suggestion?
Thanks,
Rodolfo