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Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janik ml.) writes:

>    > > hmm, can you please add (iso-8859-2 . 8bit)?
>    > 
>    > Is that the preferred encoding, though?  Why not qp?
> 
> there are at least two good reasons:
> 
>         - there are too many people with not-MIME compliant browsers and they
>           can not read =3D like stuff at all. 8bit is readable for
>           them. Remember that there are crazy people who do not use Gnus and
>           even Emacs...

Mail is a MIME world these days.  I don't think there are any
widely-used mail readers that don't grok QP.

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