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Jonathon Isaac Swiderski <jonswid@umich.edu> writes:

> I have set C-x RET t iso-latin-1 and C-x RET t iso-8859-1 (I've
> tried -9, too), and Gnus (5.7/Emacs 20.7) still doesn't understand
> characters --- while Pine's newsreader (whose coding system is set
> to iso-8859-1 also) correctly displays accents, umlauts,
> etc. correctly, Gnus display's Kai's last name as "Gro\337johann" or
> "=?iso-8859-1?q?G".  All this in the same terminal emulator, PuTTY.

If you see =?iso-8859-1?q?, then it's a different problem.  This is a
Mule encoding, and Gnus 5.7 does not grok Mule.

I recommend that you install Gnus 5.8 which does grok Mule.
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