On Sun, Aug 24 2025, "Nickolai Dobrynin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I tell which charset (per, e.g., "Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=...") Will be chosen by GNUS to byte-encode the message I am > about to send, but without *actually* sending that message out? Does ‘C-u C-c RET P’ (the ‘mml-preview’ command with a prefix argument) work for you? It has to show the “Content-Type:” header in the preview buffer. (Don’t forget the prefix argument!) > In my config file, the "mm-coding-system-priorities" variable lists > several charsets. From what I understand, GNUS tries them all out > sequentially until a suitable one is found: There is a ‘Content-Type:’ and also a ‘Content-Transfer-Encoding:’. The earlier is managed with ‘mm-coding-system-priorities’. But, the later is managed with ‘mm-body-charset-encoding-alist’ and ‘gnus-group-posting-charset-alist’. The ‘gnus-group-posting-charset-alist’ variable has ‘(message-this-is-mail nil nil)’ sexp, by default; which makes it always prefer using ‘quoted-printable’ over ‘8bit’ for mail messages. […9L…] > Many thanks. You’re welcome. -- English is not my native/mother language. I can read and understand English well, but I have problems expressing my thoughts in it. Please, bear with me. Sincerely, Pyromania. PGP fingerprint = 2B24 291E 0637 4D2E 0D14 9EFC D7B3 10D4 5C9D 5892 () ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
