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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-08-20 04:05:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-08-20 04:05:11 +0000 |
| commit | 7826c2dbe269a0b0fabd3a421d296d27d8407a03 (patch) | |
| tree | 743b9bc7d96a8b7e74515df03885bdcef35352aa /man | |
| parent | 5c2e9d5a85b870ddaab3ac129ded481466e64499 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-7826c2dbe269a0b0fabd3a421d296d27d8407a03.tar.gz | |
Minor clarification.
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/rmail.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/rmail.texi b/man/rmail.texi index c60c259cdd4..0e553aaadd4 100644 --- a/man/rmail.texi +++ b/man/rmail.texi @@ -1007,14 +1007,14 @@ clicking on them with @kbd{Mouse-2} or by moving to one and typing @section Rmail and Coding Systems @cindex decoding mail messages (Rmail) - Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-@sc{ascii} + Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-ASCII characters, just as Emacs does with files you visit and with subprocess output. Rmail uses the standard @samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in the message, if any, to determine how the message was encoded by the sender. It maps @var{charset} into the corresponding Emacs coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and uses that coding system to decode -message text. If the message header doesn't have the charset -specification, or if the @var{charset} it specifies is not recognized, +message text. If the message header doesn't have the @samp{charset} +specification, or if @var{charset} is not recognized, Rmail chooses the coding system with the usual Emacs heuristics and defaults (@pxref{Recognize Coding}). |