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23.2.91; Rmail shows incorrect message encoding in the mode line

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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7626: mm-charset-override-alist
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:23:55 +0100

On Tue, Jan 18 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> I think `mm-charset-override-alist' should be on by default.  Before I
>>> added (back in 2005) we frequently had complains about "why doesn't
>>> Gnus display this article correctly?".  I don't recall any real
>>> problems with this.
>
>> 2005 was 6 years ago.  Perhaps things changed since then.
>
> AFAIK, none of the root causes for these problems have changed.

I agree.  I found around 40 articles declared as iso-8859-* which
contain #x80 (the position of the EUR sign € in windows-1252) in my
local leafnode news spool which contains mostly technical usenet
groups (comp.*, de.comp.*, de.comm.*, ...) and mailing list from
gmane.org.

Bye, Reiner.
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