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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