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Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8
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Tim X |
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Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8 |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:39 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
Tim
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