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Re: changing the charset


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: changing the charset
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:13:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

On Mon, May 10 2004, Kamen TOMOV wrote:

> Can somebody tell me how can I change my default posting character set
> when sending messages with gnus. I tryed setting the following
> variables to achieve that but with no luck:
>
> (require 'mm-util)
> (defun mm-read-charset (prompt)
>   "Return a charset."
>   'windows-1251)

Why?  I'd remove this.

> (setq gnus-default-charset (quote windows-1251))

This is for viewing, not for sending.

> (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(windows-1251 utf-8))

This should work, at least it does for me (test: ยท).

Ah, maybe you need... 

  (codepage-setup 1251)

... and maybe also...

  (define-coding-system-alias 'windows-1251 'cp1251)

> (setq mm-body-charset-encoding-alist
>   '((windows-1251 . 8bit)
>    (utf-8 . 8bit)))

This is relevant for the Content-Transfer-Encoding, not for the
charset in Content-Type.

> (setq gnus-default-posting-charset (quote windows-1251))

This variable is no longer used.

> Without matter of these settings the character set continues to be
> ISO-8859-5 as is in this article.

Let's see what happens with this article.

Bye, Reiner.
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