gnus charsets

gnus charsets

[Mads Jensen]

Hi NG

I've been looking in the manual, but I can't find out which setting I
need to alter in order to change the character set, which all my
email/messages are encoded with. Right now, it appears that the default
character set in emacs is latin-1.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: gnus charsets

[The Chief Instigator]

Mads Jensen <spam@raptus.dk> writes:

>Hi NG

>I've been looking in the manual, but I can't find out which setting I
>need to alter in order to change the character set, which all my
>email/messages are encoded with. Right now, it appears that the default
>character set in emacs is latin-1.

It depends on your ISP's installation - but to switch to a different character
set: 

C-x RET t, and then enter the character set at the prompt.  (Mine defaults to
ASCII, but I use that to switch to IS0-8859-1...which is what your default
is.)

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Re: gnus charsets

[Frank Schmitt]

Mads Jensen <spam@raptus.dk> writes:

> I've been looking in the manual, but I can't find out which setting I
> need to alter in order to change the character set, which all my
> email/messages are encoded with. Right now, it appears that the default
> character set in emacs is latin-1.

I have

;;UTF-8 is the future
(setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(mule-utf-8))

in my .gnus. If you don't want Unicode, a list of charsets would
probably be more appropriate.

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