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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>>    Just because you're using UTF-8, mac-roman, EBCDIC or whatever on
>>    your local system doesn't mean that it's a good guess that you'll
>>    receive mail and news using this charset.  
>
> I think this guess is better than no guess at all.

Well, I think experience shows that UTF-8 isn't a good guess.  It's a
bad guess for dk.*, and as Karl says also for de.*.  

Previously `gnus-group-charset-alist' had (".*" iso-8859-1) as the last
entry -- this was probably better for the majority of users.

I haven't got any statistics to back it up, but I suspect that clients
which send UTF-8 are probably newer, and thus more likely to include a
proper MIME charset declaration.

So, I think it's much more likely that the charset of a message with an
undeclared charset is iso-8859-x rather than UTF-8.