My outgoing e-mail is set to send in UTF-8.
  The 'use default encoding' option has a common negative effect: there are
numerous encodings that support Cyrillic, and not all mail agents (quite a
few web-mail agents) support MBCS properly, hence the use of the original
encoding that the mail was received with is very useful, and when trying to
send a mail with content that does not match the encoding Thunderbird will
ask to switch to an Unicode character encoding. The last part is somewhat
hampered when using Enigmail, it seems that the character encoding
detection happens after Engimail has performed the encryption.

  My preferred solution to this issue (and other) is to send mail in MIME
format, but I can not force that on other people.


2016-03-01 21:51 GMT+02:00 Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]>:

> On 01.03.16 16:20, Lachezar Dobrev wrote:
> >   When replying of forwarding a message that is in a Latin/ASCII
> > compatible character set and typing text that is not Latin?ASCII sub-set
> > the newly added text is lost.
> >
> >   Example:
> >   - Incoming mail in Windows-1252 encoding
> >   - Reply/Forward to mail with Cyrillic content
> >   - Send encrypted using Inline
> >   <the mail gets encrypted using Windows-1252, and garbles Cyrillic>
> >   - The encrypted content is Latin (Base64), Thunderbird does not change
> > or warn about the encoding failure.
> >   - The mail is irreversibly broken, including the copy in Sent mail.
> >
> >   This problem (seems to) does not occur with MIME multi-part messages.
> > The encoded multi-part has UTF-8 encoding (and quoted-printable).
>
> I would recommend to enable the Thunderbird option "When possible, use
> the default text encoding in replies" (in Preferences > Display >
> Advanced), and to set the default to UTF-8 for outgoing mail.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
>
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