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
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