charset question (Windows-1251 and UTF-8 CJK)

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Hi all,

(UltraSPARC Solaris 2.8, GNU Emacs 21.3. w/ gnus 5.10.6)

Several months ago I had trouble using Japanese in newgroups using
T-Gnus, and was recrommended to use gnus 5.10 instead. This solved my
problem. Now I still ahve problems with some charactersets:

 - Windows-1251 news articles or mail always appears as character
   codes, and I could not find any coding that seems to make it work.

I am confused because I have read that some mail readers (such as mew)
support this charset, yet I cannnot find out how to make it work. Does
gnus support this charset independently of emacs, and where can I look
for help? Google "windows-1251 gnus" and similar turned up nothing I
could use.

 - UTF-8 with CJK characters does not seem to work.

I read in google that UTF-8 is still only partially supported by
Emacs, so it seems that receiving mail and news in UTF-8 (CJK) is not
possible for now. Mozilla does fine on this front though.

Are these issues resolved (i.e. reduced to a settings problem) or are
they still current? (I need to find a work-around)

Many thanks,
     Gernot
-- 
G Hassenpflug RASC, Kyoto University