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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:


> In short, gnus should not use any `auto-magic', and should try to
> find a charset which contains all characters appearing in a buffer
> using a translation list. This is how SEMI does things.

What does it do when it can't find a charset that covers all
characters?  For instance, I may have written a message that quotes
Sami text (which is iso-8859-9, I believe) and responds with text that 
contains Norwegian text (iso-8859-1).

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