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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>>
>>>    Just because you're using UTF-8, mac-roman, EBCDIC or whatever on
>>>    your local system doesn't mean that it's a good guess that you'll
>>>    receive mail and news using this charset.  
>>
>> I think this guess is better than no guess at all.
>>
>> Do you have a better guess?
>
> I think somewhere in Gnus' code there's a list of Usenet hierarchies
> with default charsets, IMO we should use this.

Yup, isn't it used?  For groups not in gnus-group-charset-alist, Gnus
should ideally be more helpful than simply using the locale default.
If Gnus can discover that the locale default cannot possibly be
applicable to an article, it should try something else that might
work.