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

> Well, i set
> 
> (set-language-environment "Cyrillic-KOI8")
> 
> and i expect that in this language environment gnus should prefer
> koi8-r when sending cyrillic letters. but gnus still uses iso-8859-5.
> so, it seems that gnus does not extract that info from coding system
> properties (or elsewhere), to guess the preferred charset to use.

Hm.

What does

(mm-find-charset-region (point-min) (point-max))

and

(mm-find-mime-charset-region (point-min) (point-max))

evaluate to for you in a buffer with some cyrillic text?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen