Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>> 
>>> Sometimes I get email which has no predeclared charset. Emacs assumes
>>> Latin-1 in those cases. This is good in general. But is there a way
>>> to have Emacs inspect the current message and suggest a better
>>> charset?
>>>
>>> In particular, I sometimes know there is Chinese in it, but I don't
>>> know if it's GB or Big5 encoded.  So I try both until I see a
>>> character I recognize.  Is there a way to have Emacs/Gnus guess
>>> whether it's GB or Big5?
>> 
>> Surely there must be some Mule functions for guessing what charset
>> some text is in, but I have no idea what it's called.  Anybody?
>
> `detect-coding-region'

I tested the function on the attached files in both Emacs 21 and
XEmacs 21.4.  I found the one in XEmacs did a good job, but the one in
Emacs is almost useless.

ShengHuo