Default character encoding

[Richmond]

Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when
no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

I searched but only found the concept of washing, which replaces “ when
encoded as octal 224 with `` for example. W Y f. A very useful function
anyway.

[Emanuel Berg]

Post by Richmond
I searched but only found the concept of
washing, which replaces “ when encoded as
octal 224 with `` for example. W Y f. A very
useful function anyway.
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As you seem to be so concerned with the
appearance of articles, how about reading
section 4.3 in RFC 3676? :)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

[Richmond]

Post by Emanuel Berg
As you seem to be so concerned with the
appearance of articles, how about reading
section 4.3 in RFC 3676? :)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

OK my lawyer and I read the document. I think I get what you are
saying. :)

[Emanuel Berg]

Post by Richmond
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[Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)]

Post by Richmond
Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when
no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

How about this: in ~/.emacs

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
#+END_SRC

Then Gnus display on UTF-8, always!!!

[Richmond]

Post by Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
How about this: in ~/.emacs
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
#+END_SRC
Then Gnus display on UTF-8, always!!!

Thanks. I've, um, slightly adapted that for my needs. :)

[Teemu Likonen]

Post by Richmond
Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?)
when no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

Yes. See variables gnus-default-charset and gnus-group-charset-alist.
For example:

(setq gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)

[Richmond]

Post by Teemu Likonen

Post by Richmond
Is it possible to make Gnus default to Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?)
when no character set is specified in headers of news articles?

Yes. See variables gnus-default-charset and gnus-group-charset-alist.
(setq gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)

Thanks, that's an even better solution I think.

[Emanuel Berg]

Post by Richmond

Post by Richmond
Is it possible to make Gnus default to
Windows-1252 (or iso-8859-?) when no
character set is specified in headers of
news articles? Yes. See variables
gnus-default-charset and
gnus-group-charset-alist. For example: (setq
gnus-default-charset 'windows-1252)

Thanks, that's an even better solution
I think.

I have:

(setq mm-body-charset-encoding-alist '((utf-8 . 8bit)))

This is getting confusing...

And: How can you tell what encoding is in
effect in an article?