What is gnus-mime?
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   *gnus-mime* is a MIME (See (tm-en)MIME) extender for Gnus (*Note
(gnus)::) using tm (See (tm-en)tm-kernel).

*[Notice]*
     gnus-mime is for only Gnus.  Please use tm-gnus (*Note
     (tm-gnus_en)::) for GNUS.

   gnus-mime supports automatic MIME preview in `"*Article*"' buffer
using tm-view (See (tm-view-en)).  In particular, with XEmacs, it
decodes images as same as text.

   In addition, gnus-mime supports multilingual/internationalization
feature for mule such as MULE (See (tm-en)mule), XEmacs/mule and
mule merged Emacs.  It supports code-conversion by MIME charset or
depended default MIME charset of newsgroups.

   For RFC 1522, original Gnus supports only Q-encoded iso-8859-1
(See (tm-en)iso-8859-1) encoded-word (See (tm-en)encoded-word).
So gnus-mime supports more MIME charsets, such as iso-8859-2 (*Note
(tm-en)iso-8859-2::), iso-8859-3 (See (tm-en)iso-8859-3), ...,
iso-2022-jp (See (tm-en)iso-2022-jp), euc-kr (*Note
(tm-en)euc-kr::), iso-2022-kr (See (tm-en)iso-2022-kr), gb2312,
hz-gb-2312 (See (tm-en)hz-gb-2312), cn-big5 (*Note
(tm-en)cn-big5::), and B-encoding.  In addition, original Gnus does not
support unfolding or space elimination rule of RFC 1522.  gnus-mime is
more rightful.