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Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> * It then uses Emacs' charset detection functions to determine the
>>   charset.  By default, Emacs doesn't know about windows-1252, so it
>>   isn't detected correctly, and the text is decoded as something else.
>
> It must have guessed some other charset that doesn't map \200 then. How
> do I ask it which character set it thinks it is again?

It's indicated in the mode line of the article buffer.  For me it
displayed "t", i.e. raw-text-unix.

> can I just steal that from CVS and stuff it into my 21.3 emacs?

I don't know.

> (BTW, is CVS emacs fast enough? 21.2/21.3 are _way_ slower than 21.1
> was).

I don't see a speed difference between CVS and 21.2 that's statistically
significant.  These are timings for fetching 10.000 articles from a
local NNTP server 4 times:

Sum: 132.005927 Avg: 33.001482 Var: 2.129394 Thu Apr 10 22:14:52 2003 - Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)
Sum: 134.704826 Avg: 33.676206 Var: 2.241309 Thu Apr 10 22:18:33 2003 - Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)