From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:05:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Minor clarification. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.105~149 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95009a1359dabfb7341349f8aa230cc00f539eb5;p=emacs.git Minor clarification. --- 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}).