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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
>=20
> > Now that I use Gnus with Mule, I have real problems with Croatian
> > users' broken new agents, which mis-declare Latin 2 articles as Lat=
in
> > 1.  Poor Gnus thinks the message is Latin 1, and renders it that wa=
y.
>=20
> I think it would be good to have a command in Gnus which says:
> pretend that this MIME part (or maybe the whole message) has
> charset=3Dfoo even though it says charset=3Dbar in the header.

Yes, that would be nice.  It could be a problem with multi-parts, but
that command could simply signal an error when encountering a
multipart.

A variable wouldn't cut it, because even in those groups legal Latin 1
messages.  *can* be found.