ANS> 1. When I compose a message gnus sets coding system to 'ESC/Quot'
ANS> (i.e. quoted-printable), but I'm able to input russian letters. May
ANS> be that's OK?
Yes.
ANS> 2. When sending the message gnus replaces all cyrillic chars by '~'
ANS> and insert 'charset=us-ascii' into Content-Type header field.
You've been told about put-charset-property already. Another advice - add:
# OOrt Gnus
deb
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/ packages/
deb-src
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/ packages/source/
and move to OOrt Gnus. Lot of Cyrillic-related bugs were fixed since 5.8.8 ...
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