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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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Comment(by bunk):

 Replying to [comment:6 blacktrash]:
 > Replying to [comment:5 bunk]:
 > > 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.
 >
 > But € is part of iso-8859-15, so
 >
 > set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:windows-1252:utf-8"
 >
 > would choose iso-8859-15.

 There are no limits in how complicated you could make this if you
 desperately want to avoid utf-8.

 But why?

 Having iso-8859-1 preferred over UTF-8 was a good choice back in 2000 when
 $send_charset was set this way in init.h, since back then UTF-8 support in
 MUAs was not always good.

 Now in 2009 that's no longer a problem.

 Globally, the move from a gazillion different charsets to UTF-8 is a huge
 improvement.

 People send MBs of attachments, and many emails are anyway Spam, so what's
 the real gain of having everything more complicated (and with semi-random
 problems since one character can change the encoding completely) just for
 saving a few bytes in some cases?

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