Evolution uses your systems charset by default (which is UTF-8 on Red
Hat 8 and 9, for example). If you are just sending English, you can use
ISO-8859-1.

Jeff

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:14, Mike Gifford wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've received notices from a couple people know that my messages aren't
> readable.  One person thought it was greek another croatian.
> 
> Most recently it was this message that a client reported:
> 
> > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the
> > Internet Service.  To view the original message content,  open the
> > attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the
> > attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display
> > the original character set. 
> 
> I only use text messages, so I found this very confusing.  My default
> character set was set to Western European (which I figured would be fine
> for English).  What should it be for English?  I've switched it to UTF-8
> as that seems to be the default.
> 
> I'm using Evolution 1.4.4
> 
> I'm starting to get worried that a whole wack of emails that I've sent
> might be undecipherable by the folks on the other end.
> 
> 
> Mike
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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