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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it> writes:
>
>> 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.

I think `gnus-group-posting-charset-alist' is the usual option to frob
if you don't want QP in email.