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David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> Although it has not caused a problem until recently, my use of UTF-8
> and "quoted printable" has caused problems in a newsgroup which I
> recently started using.  Basically, I have been told in no uncertain
> terms to avoid them.
>
> However, I am unclear how to change this, although I have read section
> 3.19 of the Gnus Manual.
>
> How do I ensure that, when posting news, my messages are sent in
> ISO-8859-1, and avoid "quoted printable"?

I should perhaps have added that the problem arises when using French
characters, e.g. « à é ç ».  When I write using just standard English
characters, Gnus/Emacs sends it as "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii"

David

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