Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Although it has not caused a problem until recently, my use of UTF-8 >> and "quoted printable" has caused problems in a newsgroup which I >> recently started using. Basically, I have been told in no uncertain >> terms to avoid them. >> >> However, I am unclear how to change this, although I have read section >> 3.19 of the Gnus Manual. >> >> How do I ensure that, when posting news, my messages are sent in >> ISO-8859-1, and avoid "quoted printable"? > > You can test this on a private group - no need to send test messages > to the 'troubled' newsgroup (UTF-8 is here to stay :) > > Hit `G c' on the group that you want to customize. Set the preferred > charset to iso-8859-1. Save. That should do it. The Gnus manual > should have more information on this - I don't use it myself, so the > manual is the authoritative source.
Strange: I have tried this, having commented out in .gnus the lines suggested by Aidan, and it doesn't work! Despite having specified iso-8859-1, as you suggest, messages I send to the fr.test group still are sent as UTF-8 and quoted printable. David -- David Sumbler Please reply with a followup to the newsgroup. However, if you _really_ want to send me an e-mail, replace "nospam" in my address with "aeolia". _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list Info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english