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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> i've got a message which was in windows-1251 encoding, but
> Content-Type header said that it was in koi8-r, so the message was
> unreadable.
> 
> I pressed C-u g e, and changed "charset=koi8-r" to
> "charset=windows-1251" in the Content-Type header.
> 
> Then i pressed C-c C-c
> 
> But the saved article still contained "charset=koi8-r" !

Uhm.  `C-c C-c' after editing the message will create brand new
Content-Type headers.  And since Gnus thought that the text was
koi8-r, Gnus put that in the new header.

*sigh*

Anyway, `C-u W M c' will let you re-interpret the message using a
different charset.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen