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>>>>> "KE" == Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

 Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
 |   It would be better to put 'x-unknown in `gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets'.  
 |   Let Gnus "guess" the actual charset.
 |   
 |   (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets (cons 'x-unknown
 |           gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets))

KE> This sounds good -- but when I tried it, Gnus hangs while reading
KE> the active file.  This works:

This is weird. There is no charset stuff in the active file, I guess.

KE> (eval-after-load "mm-util"
KE>   '(add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist
KE>                '(x-unknown . iso-8859-1)))

KE> But your example or this one does not:

KE> (eval-after-load "gnus-sum"
KE>   (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets
KE>         (cons 'x-unknown gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets)))

I use 
        (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets '(unknown-8bit x-unknown))
which works for me.

-- 
Shenghuo ZHU