>On 2013-11-14, Dominik Psenner wrote: > >>> I'm not sure whether setting the encoding to UTF8 triggers some sort of >>> different handling inside of the framweork's SMTP code even if the test >>> was pure ASCII. If it doesn't, then I'm fine with UTF8. > >> and checking a few of my Gmail's mails it seems they default to UTF8. I've >> just spammed test messages, this is the code: > >OK, looks as if the main difference was UTF8 yields base64 encoding >while ASCII yields quoted printable. In general any MUA should be able >to deal with either and the difference likely is no big deal. I can >live with keeping the default at UTF8.
I've come to the same conclusion, thus agreed.