Re: setting default encodings

[Paul Tremblay <phthenry@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:13:23PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> 
> * On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 Paul Tremblay (phthenry@xxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> > How do I tell mutt to set the right encoding for an email? For
> > example, if the email is western encoded, I want to have mutt set that
> > encoding without my having to type :set charset="iso...". 
> 
> $charset, $send_charset

I tried setting my .muttrc as 

set charset=$charset

That seemd to just set an empty charset.

I'm confused as to what to do.

> 
> > Also, I want all my outgoing emails to be utf-8 encoded.
> 
> Why the hell is that? why use utf-8 when you only use us-acsii chars?
> But of course that is possible. See above.
> 

If I get an email in UTF-8, I need to send it in UTF-8. If I
accidently send it out as ASCII, then it becomes garbled.

thanks

Paul

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