On 09/08/2012 07:17 PM, Tim wrote: > It may well be that unless you write a post that uses UTF-8 encoding, > Thunderbird will use the lowest common denominator. Lots of mail > clients behave that way. > > e.g. No matter what charset you set as your preferred default, if your > message is contained within the US-ASCII repertoire, then it'll be sent > as US-ASCII. And if you include some characters beyond it, it may use > an intermediate charset, if using UTF-8 isn't essential. No, it doesn't. If you have mailnews.send_default_charset set to UTF-8 it will send it in UTF-8 regardless. Just check the header of this message. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org