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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'.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen