On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:27:40PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 19:40 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Yeah, it seems sometime in the past I lost my send_charset flag > > setting. > > > > So even though I was using UTF-8, mutt sent out > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Did you really lose the configuration setting, or was it still set? > > If what you've typed only uses the characters as in US-ASCII, then > that's all it needs to send as (the first 127 characters of UTF-8 are > the same as US-ASCII). > > Cutting and pasting into mail clients was a common problem with other > systems, I don't know how Mutt would handle that. Though I think Fedora > handles that all internally in the same way. Unlike some Windows > clients, where a copy from a UTF-8 page into a client using Windows-1252 > encoding, often went bad, as the copy and paste didn't transcode. mutt is an excellent console email client, but I don't think it guesses anything about the set of bytes my $EDITOR returns it, or if it tries to, it fails (as proven). Since my environment is an UTF-8 one, there's no problem to define send_charset as being UTF-8 Rui -- Fnord. Today is Sweetmorn, the 70th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
