>>>>> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> OK, here's another GBK message, wrapped super safely with shar(1).

At least for this message, making `gbk' be an alias to `cp936'
in Gnus is a bad idea.  Reiner?  I could reproduce \NNN using
Emacs 22.1 and the current Emacs trunk.  The cp936 coding system
in those versions of Emacsen seems to be incomplete for gbk text.

OTOH, Unicode 2 (i.e. Emacs 23.0.60) and the iconv command (both
support gbk) look good.  Therefore, I tried creating the gbk
coding system for Mule version 5 (i.e. Emacs 21.1-23.0.50) using
iconv.  I use:

$ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libc) 2.6

and Mule-UCS for Emacs 21.x.  If you try this module, you have
to load (or require) it before loading Gnus.