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Re: [Mutt] #3177: mutt wish: send_charset default "us-ascii:utf-8"



#3177: mutt wish: send_charset default "us-ascii:utf-8"
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  Reporter:  antonio@xxxxxxxx  |       Owner:  mutt-dev
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:          
 Component:  mutt              |     Version:  1.5.19  
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
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Changes (by bunk):

 * cc: bunk (added)


Comment:

 A short version of the discussion in the Debian bug some people here might
 not have read:

 It only makes a size difference if you use non-ASCII characters AND no
 characters outside iso-8859-1 (like the € sign) in an email. And the size
 advantage in these cases would typically be something around 1%, so not
 really noticable.

 Having more charsets in the mix can cause problems when sending patches in
 the body of an email (e.g. when submitting patches to linux-kernel, where
 patches in the mail body are the only accepted form of submitting patches
 to the mailinglist).

 And one single character in the email making the charset flip from
 iso-8859-1 to the incompatible utf-8 makes such problems semi-random.

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