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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.
>
> Do you have a better guess?

I think somewhere in Gnus' code there's a list of Usenet hierarchies
with default charsets, IMO we should use this.

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