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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Why the chinese characters become numbers?
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 08:13:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7db6vol.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m365ov5kd3.fsf@tu173044.tsinghua.edu.cn> (Hongzheng Wang's message of "01 May 2003 13:03:36 +0800")

Hongzheng Wang <wanghz@tu173044.tsinghua.edu.cn> writes:

> Language environment has been set to chinese gb. And I
> can process chinese correctly in normal files. But when
> I receive email by gnus, all the words become numbers
> like this \023\033...

That probably means that the mails you receive don't have proper MIME
headers.  Do the messages display correctly if you use `C-u 0 g' on
one of these messages and then manually specify the charset to use?
If so, there are some Gnus variables you can tinker with to say what
the default charset should be...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-01  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-01  5:03 Hongzheng Wang
2003-05-01  6:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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