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Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8


From: Chris Yocum
Subject: Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:39 -0000
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On 2010-04-15, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Chris Yocum <cyocum@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> While I have used emacs for a while as a text editor, etc.  I am now
>> using VM 8.1.0 in emacs to compose and send mail as well.  I noticed
>> that when I composed mail in either Message or Mail Mode that the MIME
>> attributes stated that I was sending a charset of us-ascii and I would
>> really like to send my mails with utf-8 set as the character set.
>> Does anyone know the magic incantation to get Mail/Message Mode to do
>> that?  I am using EMACS 23.1.1 on amd64 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
>> Thank you all very much in advance.
>>
>
> I'm not sure that is a good idea. From memory, the RFCs for mail specify
> messages should be 7 or possibly 8 bit. If you must use UTF-8, you
> probably have to set things up to send as MIME. Most mail servers will
> probalby handle UTF-8 fine, its the occasional one that doesn't which
> will cause things to go weird.
>

I primarily use Google's gmail smtp so I am pretty sure it will be
alright.  If I run into problems, I can just fall back to the default.

Thanks!,
Chris


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