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On 8472 day of my life Oliver Scholz wrote:
>> Perhaps some day we can try ASCII first, then fall back to UTF-8.  But
>> that will take a long time.  Even moving to ISO-8859-1 in northern
>> Europe took a long time, and still isn't finished.  I still use IBMPC2
>> (CP437?) in some regional communication channels.
> [...]
>
> I think it is in general a good idea to choose the encoding according
> to the audience. Fortunately this is not hard with Gnus. There are
> some people to which I send my mail in Latin-1.

Do you use special group for them or do something more tricky?

-- 
Ivan Boldyrev

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