# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 998280311 0 # Node ID 9fb8804de607715f2d856dbf68daee38cad1f553 # Parent bd208373c5a80a9a5a96e16601abacc54fe2bf37 Minor clarification. diff -r bd208373c5a8 -r 9fb8804de607 man/rmail.texi --- a/man/rmail.texi Mon Aug 20 03:57:13 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/rmail.texi Mon Aug 20 04:05:11 2001 +0000 @@ -1007,14 +1007,14 @@ @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}).