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Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> The lowest common denominator for most German text is ISO
> 646-DE. For most Danish text (I presume) ISO 646-DK. Virtually
> nobody uses those coding systems anymore, and IMNSHO nobody should
> use them.

The RFC does say that ISO-8859 is prefered over ISO 646:

   Note that the ISO 646 character sets have deliberately been omitted
   in favor of their 8859 replacements, which are the designated
   character sets for Internet mail.

> Taken literally nobody should use ISO 8859-15 then, unless the
> message really contains an € (or one of the other 7
> characters). 

I agree with that.  I don't see _any_ reason to use latin-9 if you
don't need it.  Some MUA's don't support latin-9 (including older
versions of Gnus) -- why break those clients for no good reason?