1 The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus
2 distribution proper. They may later become part of the distribution,
3 or they may disappear altogether.
5 Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to
6 load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of
7 more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete
8 libraries with all kinds of ill effects.
10 The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you
11 need to a directory which is in load-path.
13 Here is an overview of the files:
17 As of Emacs 21, base64 encoding and decoding is available
18 natively. So this file appears to be needed for Emacs 20
28 MD5 encoding is part of Emacs as of Emacs 21.2. Hence, this
29 file is not needed for those Emacs versions.
37 This file provides improved Unicode functionality. It defines
38 functions unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
39 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode which unify the Latin-N charsets.
40 Without unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, composing a Latin-9 reply
41 to a Latin-1 posting, say, will produce a multipart posting (a
42 Latin-1 part and a Latin-9 part), or perhaps UTF-8. With
43 unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, the outgoing posting can be all
44 Latin-1 or all Latin-9 in most cases.
46 It is harmless to turn on unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, but
47 unify-8859-on-decoding-mode may unexpectedly change files in
48 certain situations. (If the file contains different Latin-N
49 charsets which should not be unified.)
51 This is part of Emacs 21.3 and later, which also turns on
52 unify-8859-on-encoding-mode by default.
58 This is used for parsing RSS feeds. Part of Emacs 21.3 and