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.
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