Ingo Schwarze wrote in <zqrdqncxfvpfh...@asta-kit.de>: ... |I just checked - even though i'm using the higer-level mutt(1) MUA |most of the time and even though the shell i'm starting mutt(1) from |has LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 set on that particular machine, the last sixteen |mails i sent all contained the explicit header | | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | |and intentionally so. Yes, i do occasionally send UTF-8 mail on
To be a hundred percent correct: MIME is not needed at all in that case, unless a transfer-encoding had to be used (you do not show that header), maybe because of overlong lines to-be-folded, or for whatever reason. (But it is swallowed by consumers of course.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)