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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Sometimes I get email which has no predeclared charset.  Emacs assumes
> Latin-1 in those cases.  This is good in general.  But is there a way
> to have Emacs inspect the current message and suggest a better
> charset?
>
> In particular, I sometimes know there is Chinese in it, but I don't
> know if it's GB or Big5 encoded.  So I try both until I see a
> character I recognize.  Is there a way to have Emacs/Gnus guess
> whether it's GB or Big5?

Surely there must be some Mule functions for guessing what charset
some text is in, but I have no idea what it's called.  Anybody?

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