From: Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>
Subject: Re: How to specify charset in message headers?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 15:22:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uyaluf8jc.fsf@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "19 Feb 1999 17:12:35 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
>
> > I am sorry - this question looks like it should be in the docs
> > somewhere, but I could not find it. How can I specify a different
> > charset in my outgoing messages? Currently I get 'Content-Type:
> > text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'. Depending on the group I'm in I'd
> > like to specify a Russian charset (win1251 as I'm under Windows).
>
> I know nothing about win1251, but I thought that koi8-r was the most
> popular charset for cyrillic text?
It is. Unfortunately, under windows an MS-born win1251 is used, and
(at least in a non-mule emacs) it is much easier to use it (for
personal mail at least) instead of koi8-r. Or so I think...
>
> Anyway, if you use a Mule-enabled XEmacs, this should work
> automatically. In a non-Mule XEmacs, you should say something like
>
> (setq message-default-charset 'koi8-r)
Thanks.
--
Cheers,
-Dima.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-16 6:01 Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-19 16:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-19 20:22 ` Dmitry Yaitskov [this message]
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