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smarkacz@anathema.eu.org (smarkacz) writes:

> How do you know whether these undeclared characters are Latin1, Latin2,
> Windows1250 (yuck) or any other coding system?

Easy, look at the newsgroups header.  In dk.* the default character
set is Latin-1.  In relcom.* it is koi-8.  Separate hierarchies have
separate rules.

Obviously this causes problems for software less smart than Gnus, but
up until recently (and maybe still?) QP caused even more problems.