Richmond [2017-07-23 18:16:50+01] 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)

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