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Jost Krieger <Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
>  > I just read a news article with Latin 1 characters in it with pGnus
>  > 0.13 (Emacs 20.3).  Latin 1 characters were displayed as \888 octal
>  > escapes.  The news article didn't have any MIME headers.
> 
> So how should gnus know they are Latin1 characters ?

It's a good idea to assume Latin1 when nothing is specified.  The
assumption does no harm, and gets things right in most of the cases.

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