JB wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium <kwhiskerz@...> writes: > >> >> When I receive system mail, I read it on the command line with the 'mail' > program. It appears to be called >> Heirloom Mail version 12.4 7/29/08. >> >> Now, as I scroll down, I see that the system mail is sent as: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ANSI_X3.4-1968" >> >> However, my system is set up to use UTF-8. Why is this charset wrong, or >> not > respecting my system setting? How >> can I get it corrected? >> > Hi, > $ man mail > ... > sendcharsets > A comma-separated list of character set names that can be > used > in Internet mail. When a message that contains characters > not > representable in US-ASCII is prepared for sending, mailx > tries to convert its text to each of the given character > sets in order > and uses the first appropriate one. The default is ‘utf-8’. > > Character sets assigned to this variable should be ordered > in > ascending complexity. That is, the list should start with > e.g. > ‘iso-8859-1’ for compatibility with older mail clients, > might > contain some other language-specific character sets, and > should end with ‘utf-8’ to handle messages that combine > texts in multi- ple languages. > ... > > $ cat /etc/mail.rc > ... > # Outgoing messages are sent in ISO-8859-1 if all their characters are > # representable in it, otherwise in UTF-8. > set sendcharsets=iso-8859-1,utf-8 > ... > > JB > > > > > Ok, thanks. I believe this helped. Obviously, it is not a huge deal, but since fedora has utf-8 as system default, I always wondered why system mail was not delievered in utf-8. I edited mail.rc and will see if my next system mail is in utf-8. :-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
