Monthly Archives: February 2008
Bad interaction between Tiga theme and Gengo plugin
Suddenly Gengo doesn’t work anymore with the Tiga theme. When I deactivate Gengo it works. With Gengo and another theme it works. But with the Tiga theme and Gengo activated it doesn’t work: the pages are empty. Apparently somewhere php crashes then.
For the time being I decided to switch off Gengo.
Sending non-ASCII text in emails with Emacs and VM
I use Emacs to do a lot of work, not only editing files. For example all my email reading and writing I do with Emacs, as well as reading Usenet newsgroups. For email I use VM (viewmail) rather than the standard RMAIL.
One problem that popped up when we got the Euro as a currency was that VM couldn’t deal properly with non-ASCII characters when sending email. When a mixture of different character sets was present in a message a Japanese coding was chosen that most email reader don’t understand. Because I wanted to send emails with the €-sign I cooked up some code to make this work. The code was inspired by similar code in Gnus, the Emacs Usenet reader. (Some people also use gnus for their email but I prefer VM for that.)
