Re: Replying with the same charset as the original article

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Georges KO <gko@gko.net> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> > >     I would like to reply with the same charset as the original
> > > article. Currently, there's gnus-default-posting-charset, 
> > 
> > The variable is bogus.
> 
>     You mean, it is not used ?

Not used.

> > > but it is seems not possible to say "same as the answered
> > > article". Actually, I would like to use it in mail groups, where I
> > > have groups with more than one charset. gnus-default-posting-charset
> > > could be something like 'current.
> > 
> > What are those charsets?  Do they share some characters except ASCII
> > ones?
> 
>     When I do a follow-up or reply, if there are Chinese characters
> like in Big5 in the header (From:), then the To: in the composing
> buffer is displayed as 8-bit characters... Also, the "XXX writes",
> where XXX is extracted from the From:, have 8-bit characters too...

It is because you did not setup the group charset right. By default,
the group charset is iso8859-1, so what you see is not 8-bit
characters, but iso-8859-1 characters.  To setup the default group
charset, you can configure the charset parameter (maybe also
ignored-charsets) in the group parameters.  Once you set it to big5,
you can always see Chinese in the From header, also To: field when you
reply.  To override the default charset temporarily, you could type `0
G cn-big5 RET' on the message.

ShengHuo