How to specify charset in message headers?

How to specify charset in message headers?

[Dmitry Yaitskov]

Hi,

I am sorry - this question looks like it should be in the docs
somewhere, but I could not find it. How can I specify a different
charset in my outgoing messages?  Currently I get 'Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'. Depending on the group I'm in I'd
like to specify a Russian charset (win1251 as I'm under Windows). I
tried to use message-header-setup-hook but to no avail - I stil get
the same content type. Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.

Re: How to specify charset in message headers?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:

> I am sorry - this question looks like it should be in the docs
> somewhere, but I could not find it. How can I specify a different
> charset in my outgoing messages?  Currently I get 'Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'. Depending on the group I'm in I'd
> like to specify a Russian charset (win1251 as I'm under Windows).

I know nothing about win1251, but I thought that koi8-r was the most
popular charset for cyrillic text?

Anyway, if you use a Mule-enabled XEmacs, this should work
automatically.  In a non-Mule XEmacs, you should say something like

(setq message-default-charset 'koi8-r)

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: How to specify charset in message headers?

[Dmitry Yaitskov]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
> > I am sorry - this question looks like it should be in the docs
> > somewhere, but I could not find it. How can I specify a different
> > charset in my outgoing messages?  Currently I get 'Content-Type:
> > text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'. Depending on the group I'm in I'd
> > like to specify a Russian charset (win1251 as I'm under Windows).
> 
> I know nothing about win1251, but I thought that koi8-r was the most
> popular charset for cyrillic text?

It is. Unfortunately, under windows an MS-born win1251 is used, and
(at least in a non-mule emacs) it is much easier to use it (for
personal mail at least) instead of koi8-r. Or so I think...

> 
> Anyway, if you use a Mule-enabled XEmacs, this should work
> automatically.  In a non-Mule XEmacs, you should say something like
> 
> (setq message-default-charset 'koi8-r)

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.