*** To enable Gnus to read/post multi-lingual articles, you must execute<BR>
the following code, for instance, in your .emacs.
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	(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'gnus-mule-initialize)
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Then, when you start Gnus, it will decode non-ASCII text automatically
and show appropriate characters.  (Note: if you are using gnus-mime
from the SEMI package, formerly known as TM, you should NOT add this
hook to gnus-startup-hook; gnus-mime has its own method of handling
this issue.)
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Since it is impossible to distinguish all coding systems
automatically, you may need to specify a choice of coding system for a
particular news group.  This can be done by:
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	(gnus-mule-add-group NEWSGROUP 'CODING-SYSTEM)
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Here NEWSGROUP should be a string which names a newsgroup or a tree
of newsgroups.  If NEWSGROUP is "XXX.YYY", all news groups under
"XXX.YYY" (including "XXX.YYY.ZZZ") will use the specified coding
system.  CODING-SYSTEM specifies which coding system to use (for both
for reading and posting).
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CODING-SYSTEM can also be a cons cell of the form
  (READ-CODING-SYSTEM . POST-CODING-SYSTEM)
Then READ-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you read messages from the
newsgroups, while POST-CODING-SYSTEM is used when you post messages
there.
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Emacs knows the right coding systems for certain newsgroups by
default.  Here are some of these default settings:
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	(gnus-mule-add-group "fj" 'iso-2022-7)
	(gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text" 'hz-gb-2312)
	(gnus-mule-add-group "alt.hk" 'hz-gb-2312)
	(gnus-mule-add-group "alt.chinese.text.big5" 'cn-big5)
	(gnus-mule-add-group "soc.culture.vietnamese" '(nil . viqr))
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When you reply by mail to an article, these settings are ignored;
the mail is encoded according to sendmail-coding-system, as usual.
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