Re: how do I enable UTF-8 encoding for email in SM 2.49.4 linux x64?
David H. Durgee wrote: I am getting reports from others I exchange emails with of problems with my email that a search seems to show is this "bug": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435536 The work-around appears to be to enable UTF-8 encoding for email, but I don't see how to do so. When I go into mail preferences and select the Text encoding tab I see "Default text encoding" as "Default for current Locale" listed. When I drop down the menu I see various languages, but no UTF-8 listed. How do I specify UTF-8 encoding here? Dave For some reason, UTF-8 was removed from the UI for selecting the default encoding several versions ago. It does still work, though, if you set it through about:config. You need to set the preference "mailnews.send_default_charset" to the string "UTF-8". I'm not sure if you need to restart SeaMonkey for it to take effect, but it should then use UTF-8 by default for future messages you send. For example, this email I'm sending should be encoded in UTF-8 (Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn ;o) Note that the "Default Text Encoding" in the preferences appears blank when it's been set to UTF-8 using about:config, since there isn't a corresponding entry in the drop-down list. That doesn't seem to cause any problem, but if you do select one of the options in the list, you'll need to go through about:config if you want to get back to UTF-8. You might also want to tick "When possible, use this default text encoding in replies" under Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Text Encoding, so that your replies use UTF-8 rather than whatever the email you're replying to used. -- Mark. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: how do I enable UTF-8 encoding for email in SM 2.49.4 linux x64?
David H. Durgee wrote: I am getting reports from others I exchange emails with of problems with my email that a search seems to show is this "bug": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435536 The work-around appears to be to enable UTF-8 encoding for email, but I don't see how to do so. When I go into mail preferences and select the Text encoding tab I see "Default text encoding" as "Default for current Locale" listed. When I drop down the menu I see various languages, but no UTF-8 listed. How do I specify UTF-8 encoding here? As I have received no response yet perhaps you require more information. Going to a terminal window I see: dhdurgee@Z560 ~/Downloads $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= dhdurgee@Z560 ~/Downloads $ So unless I am misunderstand, this appears to indicate a UTF-8 locale. I saved my sent message as an eml file. It is both text and html. Here are some extracts from it. X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: Subject: Re: $100K Conversion 1035 Exchange Erie To: Barbara Harders References: From: "David H. Durgee" Message-ID: <8087f7a9-3f76-269b-b80a-939d7861c...@verizon.net> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:08:09 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="C4A3EDEEA96F12E5CD205806" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --C4A3EDEEA96F12E5CD205806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (content snipped) --C4A3EDEEA96F12E5CD205806 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (content snipped) --C4A3EDEEA96F12E5CD205806-- So what have I missed in my SeaMonkey settings? Dave ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
how do I enable UTF-8 encoding for email in SM 2.49.4 linux x64?
I am getting reports from others I exchange emails with of problems with my email that a search seems to show is this "bug": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435536 The work-around appears to be to enable UTF-8 encoding for email, but I don't see how to do so. When I go into mail preferences and select the Text encoding tab I see "Default text encoding" as "Default for current Locale" listed. When I drop down the menu I see various languages, but no UTF-8 listed. How do I specify UTF-8 encoding here? Dave ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
