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Fri, 31 January 2020 15:06

John Levine
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In article <87d0azijch.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>,
Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> Now it will be interesting what header Gnus will declare in the header...
>
> UTF-8 it is. I would have expected iso8859-1 though, as the characters
> should be covered by it.

ISO8859-x is rapidly dying out in favor of UTF-8 which has the
advantage that there is only one UTF-8, rather than umpteen language
specific code pages.

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