coding system for outgoing messages (was: thanks, but new problem: utf-8 on a virtual text console)

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Apr 06 2005, Peter Petersen wrote:

> Perhaps a hierarchy of coding systems (preferences of iso-8859-15, then
> utf-8, then iso-8859-1 etc.) would also do... But I am clueless as to
> how to achieve this.

For articles you send?

,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Encoding Customization") ]
| `mm-coding-system-priorities'
|      Prioritize coding systems to use for outgoing messages.  The
|      default is `nil', which means to use the defaults in Emacs.  It is
|      a list of coding system symbols (aliases of coding systems are
|      also allowed, use `M-x describe-coding-system' to make sure you
|      are specifying correct coding system names).  For example, if you
|      have configured Emacs to prefer UTF-8, but wish that outgoing
|      messages should be sent in ISO-8859-1 if possible, you can set
|      this variable to `(iso-8859-1)'.
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Bye, Reiner.
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