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Re: Changing charset of mail to be sent



    0n Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:31:47AM -0400, Remi wrote: 

    >Hi,
    >
    >I'm looking for a way to change manually the charset of mail to be sent.
    >
    >I write in English, French, and Japanese. So selecting the proper 
    >charset can often be a pain in the behind.
    >
    >If the e-mail I write is just in English, I guess any encoding can be 
    >fine. Though, when writing in French, I need to select iso-8859-1 or 
    >utf-8. In Japanese, iso-2022-jp, euc-jp, or utf-8. When I write both in 
    >French and Japanese, I must use utf-8, or else French accents on letters 
    >gets confused for Japanese characters.
    >
    >Personally, I'd love to use utf-8 all the time. But for some reason, 
    >many free Web mail services don't work well with utf-8. (For example, 
    >Hotmail and Yahoo. At least the Japanese version of those services.)
    >
    >I tried setting $send_charset, but often it doesn't give me the charset 
    >I want. I checked the manual and I don't find any way to change the 
    >charset manually.
    >
    >So, I'm wondering, does anyone know how to change the charset of an 
    >outgoing e-mail manually?

Okay, braving up here. I am a newbie when it comes to char sets.
What is meant by UTF-8 ?

 -aW