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From: David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Changing charset for posting news
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0j09ubu.fsf@ceres.staly.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17107.1151.409182.554459@parhasard.net>

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:

>  Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh David Sumbler: 
>
>  > [...] How do I ensure that, when posting news, my messages are sent in
>  > ISO-8859-1, and avoid "quoted printable"?
>
> In the general case, you can’t do this without losing data. If you write
> exclusively English, this should work, though it hasn’t been tested;
>
> (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-1))
> (add-to-list 'mm-body-charset-encoding-alist 
>              '(iso-8859-1 . 8bit))

Thanks - I've added that to my .gnus file, and it seems to work.  I
write in English and, sometimes, French, so this is fine.

David

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11 22:10 David Sumbler
2005-07-11 22:42 ` David Sumbler
2005-07-11 23:45 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-07-12 10:45   ` David Sumbler [this message]
2005-07-12 18:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-07-12 21:12   ` David Sumbler
2005-07-12 23:23     ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-07-13 15:23     ` Ted Zlatanov

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