From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18665 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Default character encoding Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:50:38 +0200 Message-ID: <86o9s922zl.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86d18rt6nx.fsf@example.com> <87bmoah29k.fsf@mithlond.arda> <86mv7tg9kq.fsf@example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500915067 17187 195.159.176.226 (24 Jul 2017 16:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:51:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 18:50:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZK-0003oa-QW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZQ-000130-Ij for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZM-00012k-Vs for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZJ-000232-U4 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54355 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZJ-00022i-Ml for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZgZA-0003I3-Pc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:50:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:bm4TLDfvujYoRuwdvI6mraEt2Xc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18665 Archived-At: Richmond wrote: >> Is it possible to make Gnus default to >> Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when no >> character set is specified in headers of >> news articles? Yes. See variables >> gnus-default-charset and >> gnus-group-charset-alist. For example: (setq >> gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252) > > Thanks, that's an even better solution > I think. I have: (setq mm-body-charset-encoding-alist '((utf-8 . 8bit))) This is getting confusing... And: How can you tell what encoding is in effect in an article? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573