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Re: Character set for posting messages
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: Character set for posting messages |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:45:48 -0000 |
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On 2010-09-25 13:19 +0200, Peter Gerdes wrote:
> Following your advice, I have set
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> (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(utf-8))
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> in my .gnus-File.
That's what I meant, indeed.
> I now would naïvely expect, that every outgoing
> message is forced to be UTF8-encoded. Nevertheless, I see in the header
> of a sent message
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Yes, that is expected and there is nothing wrong with it. UTF-8 is a
superset of ASCII after all, so if your message does not contain any
non-ASCII characters, message-mode uses us-ascii as charset.
Sven