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

> I just re-read a mail with the following MIME headers (note "charset"!):
> 
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-1
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> I wondering whether I'm allowed to vote that Gnus should recognize those
> settings as well: "iso[-_]?8859[-_]?1" ?

You can, but I don't think that Gnus should go around trying to "fix"
the charset specified by other software.  Down that road lies
madness. 

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