Hi, users in the German Gnus newsgroup are asking from time to time if Gnus (5.10) is able to handle UTF-8 articles. "handle" includes reading and posting, i.e. followup to utf-8 articles. While GNU Emacs 21.3 (latest stable release) can handle at least the "Western European" part (Latin1, windows-1252) quite well, it seems that XEmacs 21.5 produces multipart/mixed posting (where some characters are incorrect [1]) or "windows-1252 labeled as Latin-1" (b) instead of utf-8. See the followups to my test articles in <news:gmane.test> (<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.test/586>): (a) <news://news.gmane.org/utf-8-demo.fsf＠marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Markus Kuhn's utf-8 demo file XEmacs produces multipart/mixed with 726 (sic!) parts here! (a1) <news:85ptdweo5q.fsf＠lorch-net.stlo.de> (b) <news://news.gmane.org/windows-1252-cs-w1252＠marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Latin-1 and windows-1252 w/ charset=windows-1252 XEmacs produces "windows-1252 labeled as Latin-1" (b1) <news:85y8skeo7w.fsf_-_＠lorch-net.stlo.de> (c) <news://news.gmane.org/windows-1252-cs-utf-8＠marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Latin-1 and windows-1252 w/ charset=utf-8 XEmacs produces multipart/mixed with 29 parts. (c1) <news:85u138eo6x.fsf_-_＠lorch-net.stlo.de> (d) <news://news.gmane.org/latin-1-plus-1-cs-utf-8＠marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Latin-1 and some windows-1252 chars w/ charset=utf-8 XEmacs produces multipart/mixed with 20 parts. (d1) private mail from Steffen. Is Steffen Lorch's (he did the tests with XEmacs) and my assumption correct, that (Gnus with) XEmacs cannot post UTF-8 articles? If not, could you followup to the abovementioned articles in <news:gmane.test> (with a full-quote of my text!) to prove me wrong and give the XEmacs Users some instructions for their setup? (IIRC, Steffen already has the latin-unity package installed.) Bye, Reiner. [1] <news:85u138eo6x.fsf_-_＠lorch-net.stlo.de> ;; 82 = U+201A : SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK ;; 83 = U+0192 : LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK ;; 84 = U+201E : DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK ;; 88 = U+02C6 : MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT ;; 8B = U+2039 : SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (;; 96 = U+2013 : EN DASH ?) (;; 97 = U+2014 : EM DASH ?) ;; 98 = U+02DC : SMALL TILDE ;; 9B = U+203A : SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (and maybe others) -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/