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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> > Toby> Are you saying that with your patch, Message/Gnus will send
> > Toby> articles labelled as 8859.1 but containing characters in the
> > Toby> \200-\237 range (therefore not IS-8859.1)?  Isn't this as rude
> > Toby> as the Microsoft stuff that labels its Windows encoding as
> > Toby> 8859.1?
> 
> This is ugly. Can we not at the very least ask the user what to do?

I concur.  Labeling non-Latin stuff as Latin 1 is highly bogus.
Characters in the "Control-1" range can screw some terminals, when
dumped raw.  And some software _will_ dump them raw, when Gnus
mislabels them as Latin 1.

I'm really not sure what to do here.  Maybe we should ask at
comp.mail.mime?