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Re: how to change charset on the fly?



On  8-09-2005, at 23h 23'04", phyrster wrote about "how to change charset on 
the fly?"
> Hi dear mutters,
> 
> The charset of a message has its charset wrongly tagged as iso-8859-1 but I
> am sure that the content is actually Chinese and the right charset should be
> gb2312. 
> 
> How can I change the charset on the fly in order to view the
> message? Or is there any setting I can use to do the auto-coversion?
> 
> Since all iso-8859-1 coded messages can be viewed correctly under gb2312
> coding, how can I set iso-8859-1 messages be displayed in gb2312 coding?
> 

Try this:

# this line makes latin1 an alias for gb2312
charset-hook iso-8859-1 gb2312

Ionel