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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> If we're running under a non-MULE XEmacs, and we find non-ascii
> chars, then what charset are those in?  Is there a locale or
> something that can be inspected?

No.

For example, I run in a non-Mule XEmacs with latin2 fonts (as set by
Xdefaults), and the non-ASCII chars are likely latin2 -- however,
XEmacs doesn't know that by default.  Under TTY's, things work so that 
I instruct my terminal (emulator) to display latin2 fonts, and XEmacs
does the (more or less) right thing by default.

I don't run in a Croatian locale, because that would be disastrous for 
other things.  Besides, not all operating systems implement a Croatian 
locale.

> I think the user should be prompted when this can't be determined.

Yes.  It would also be nice to provide a variable for this, say
`message-default-charset', which the user can set in their .gnus and
avoid the question.