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Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

>> and what benefits it provides?
>
> AFAIK (please correct me if it's wrong), it unifies iso-8859-*
> charset's if possible. E.g. if I want to reply to a iso-8859-15
> posting (quoting an EURO-symbol) and insert iso-8859-1-`Umlaut'
> characters (like äöü), Gnus would produce utf-8 or a multi-part
> posting.

As far as I know, Gnus generates multipart postings by default.  I
suspect that ucs-tables enables the unify-to-utf8 case.