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Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it> writes:
>>
>>> How do I set the default character set for outgoing mail?
> [...]
>> Otherwise there is no default charset.  Gnus uses the most appropriate
>> charset that can encode the data you type.  To override the logic, add
>> a <#mml charset=iso-8859-42> tag to your message.  If you need to do
>
> After reading your response, and experimenting a bit with Gnus, I
> realize that I have asked only part of the question.
>
> It looks like Gnus is able to pick the right character set based on
> the message content. But it uses quoted printable as the transfer
> encoding, and I would prefer 8bit. How do I set this?

For article bodies, there is the 'encoding' MML tag for per-message
setting, and the variables mm-body-charset-encoding-alist and
mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults for permanent settings.

For headers, see rfc2047-charset-encoding-alist.

Did you see the Emacs MIME manual?  It should contain these
discussions.  Feel free to suggest improvements.