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Thomas Skogestad <tskogest@jusstud.uio.no> writes:

> If I put, say, ÆØÅ in the subject header when sending mail, it gets all
> mangled and mimed. Is this a good thing?

Yes.  You often don't know what "native" charset the mail recipient
uses, so it's Good to tag non-ascii characters with the charsets
that's being used.

> Can I turn it off?

Yes, by fiddling with `gnus-group-posting-charset-alist'.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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