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Wow!  I'm impressed bu Gnus' handling of this -- it was rendered
perfectly, without a slightest hint that there was anything MIMEish
about the message.  The Scandinavian and Chinese characters on the
same line in the body and everything.  *gloat*   :-)

Could someone take a quick peek at the message from Kurt in a non-Gnus 
MIME-aware reader and see what it does when presented with a message
that contains only text/plain parts, but with different charsets?

Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:

> But if one places the very same line in the body, sgml-#parts must be
> added manually:

[...]

> Couldn't this be quickly scanned to have #part's automatically added?
> I.e. one starts out with the group default coding and then goes
> through the body until a character not belonging to that coding is
> found - insert #part, and then repeat for that encoding...

Yes, I think MML should do that.  The result will be displayed very
nicely -- seen from Gnus, at least.  :-)

However, if someone (inadvertantly) mixed (*really* mixed) Chinese and 
Scandianvian (for instance, talking about two people who's names
contain characters from two different charsets), then that might
result in that someone (inadvertantly) sending out a really long and
winding MIME message that might be annoying for the non-Gnus recipient 
to receive...

Of course, MML might just ask the user whether to go ahead and
multipart away or not...

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