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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Whenever I include a snippet from my summary buffers in a posting, the
> posting is garbled.  Emacs declares it as UTF-16 but it is actually
> (something similar to) UTF-8.

I think there are two problems:

1. UTF-16 seems to be broken in CVS Emacs.  I get an error when I try to
   save an ordinary file as UTF-16 -- so it's probably not Gnus related.

2. UTF-16 has higher priority than UTF-8 in CVS Emacs.  I think we
   should find a fix.  Using UTF-16 in email is bad.

I'm not sure what's best:  

* Ask the Emacs maintainers if the priority of UTF-8 and UTF-16 could be
  swapped? or

* Initialize `mm-coding-system-priorities' to something like:

(when (fboundp 'sort-coding-systems)
  (delq 'mule-utf-16-le 
	(delq 'mule-utf-16-be 
	      (sort-coding-systems (coding-system-list t)))))

Ideas?