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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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