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Re: how to change send_charset on the fly?



* Alain Bench (veronatif@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  On Friday, May 19, 2006 at 10:21:24 +0200, Ye Fei wrote:
> 
> > adjust the order of your [vim] fileencodings to be the same with
> > send_charset
> 
>     No: Mutt expects the $editor to read and save exclusively and dumbly
> in $charset. $editor's charset autosensing should be disabled: It may
> sometimes give the impression to help, but in fact confuses things, and
> may well hide you the symptoms of a real problem. Leading you to be
> comfortably persuaded you send correct mails, while they really are
> garbled for your recipients.
Maybe you are right. My previous problem is not the present
problem being discussed.
> 
> 
>     BTW there are still problems with list replies: May I propose a
> complementary infosig?
Is this list reply correct? I use list-reply, just as in your
infosig.
> 
> 
> > * phyrster (phyrster@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >>| set send_charset="gb2312:GB2312:utf-8"
> 
>     That's not optimal, but should work. So your problem is elsewhere.
> Editor setting, broken html mail, parasite chars in muttrc or locale?
> 
> 
> >> How to change send_charset on the fly in mutt's 'send message page'?
> 
>     Clearly: You don't want that. You want to locate and fix the
> problem, so that the automatically choosen sending charset is correct
> from the beginning.
> 
> 
> Bye!  Alain.
> -- 
> set honor_followup_to=yes in muttrc is the default value, and makes your
> list replies go where the original author wanted them to go: Only to the
> list, or with a private copy.