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Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> Pine users have the habit to send messages with such header lines:
> 
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-UNKNOWN
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> But if you've a cloaser look at the message body, you'll notice that the
> mail actually is written as:
> 
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

You could define "x-unknown" as a synonym for "iso-8859-1" in
`mm-charset-synonym-alist'. 

>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> Unfortunately, Gnus obeys the original haeader lines and displays
> special characters (umlauts, accented characters) in the backslashed
> notation ;-(
> 
> It there an easy way to tell Emacs 20.4 with PGnus 0.95, to be a little
> bit smarter (display 8bit as 8bit)?

But it can't possibly guess that a CTE that says that it is qp is
really something else.  

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