Subject: bug#7626: mm-charset-override-alist

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:08:49 -0500

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Reiner Steib <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:57:05 -0500
> 
> > rmail-reply uses the encoding of the message replied to for setting
> > the encoding of the reply.
> 
> Sounds like a problem in rmail-reply, then.

If you have a better alternative for guessing the suitable encoding of
the reply, please suggest it.  For me, it works in 99% of cases.

> E.g. what happens if the reply includes chars that aren't covered by
> that coding-system?

As usual in Emacs: when you hit "C-c C-s" or "C-c C-c", Emacs asks for
a suitable encoding, showing the unencodable characters in a pop-up
buffer.  The message is sent using the encoding you selected once you
select it (and Emacs verified that it can encode every character).