I've just created a bug, 26081, to track this issue.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26081

(thats why i asked btw, to see how important it was and whether it
required a bumping of the priority on the issue).

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:27, Kenn Sakai wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> From: Colin Walters<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] "Default character Encoding" doesn't effect message  header
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:49:43 -0400
> 
> > Well, one thing to note is that only Emacs 21.1 or newer supports utf-8
> > (and XEmacs doesn't at all, AFAIK); that means that all the Emacs-based
> > mail clients (e.g Gnus, VM, Wanderlust, SEMI, Mew) won't support it
> > unless they're running on a new enough version of GNU Emacs.
> > 
> > Given that some of those (like Wanderlust) seem to be popular, and also
> > seem to have a mostly Japanese-only audience, I suspect there are a fair
> > number of Japanese users of GNU/Linux and Unix for whom utf-8 isn't
> > usable.
> > 
> > I mention this because I notice Kenn is using Mew (an Emacs-based mail
> > client) on Emacs 20.7.
> 
> Thanks Colin, that's exactly right.
> 
> Actually, a number(most)of Unix/Linux users use Emacs-based mail clients
> as mailer.
> 
> 
> 
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