Re: Replying with the same charset as the original article

[Georges KO <gko@gko.net>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> >     I would like to reply with the same charset as the original
> > article. Currently, there's gnus-default-posting-charset, 
> 
> The variable is bogus.

    You mean, it is not used ?

> > but it is seems not possible to say "same as the answered
> > article". Actually, I would like to use it in mail groups, where I
> > have groups with more than one charset. gnus-default-posting-charset
> > could be something like 'current.
> 
> What are those charsets?  Do they share some characters except ASCII
> ones?

    When I do a follow-up or reply, if there are Chinese characters
like in Big5 in the header (From:), then the To: in the composing
buffer is displayed as 8-bit characters... Also, the "XXX writes",
where XXX is extracted from the From:, have 8-bit characters too...
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 Georges KO (Taipei, Taiwan)      2000-12-25      gko@gko.net / ICQ: 8719684
                                                       Lundi 25 decembre 2000