From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: How do I know what charset I used?
Date: 08 Jul 1999 08:58:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9mjaar5.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lconrad@world.std.com's message of "05 Jul 1999 12:10:05 -0400"
lconrad@world.std.com writes:
> I have a Norwegian email correspondent, and we sometimes use words
> with Norwegian characters. For instance, the name of the town he
> lives in is Bodx.
>
> When I send these messages, gnus asks me "Character set used in the
> article:". If I hit space, it gives me the choices:
You're using a non-MULE XEmacs, right? In that case, it's assumed
that you only want to use a single charset for your mail, and you
should set `message-default-charset' to that charset. The charset
that covers most of western Europe and the US is `iso-8859-1'.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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