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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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