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Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> It was being caused by an old line from site-start.el I think.
> ;(standard-display-european 1)  Now commented.
> This line was needed once apon a time

Not since Emacs 19, at least.

> but I think recent changes in emacs have made it obsolete.

> That line also was causing gnus to show multibyte chars as utf-8

I don't understand that.  Its effect should be to display everything
as Latin-1, which is never likely to be what people receiving mail or
news actually want.  If you get mail in utf-8, you will see the raw
encoding, interpreted as Latin-1, but only in that case.