Re: Have Emacs guess the charset?

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

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'
        Daniel

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