[Evolution] charset setting

[Ladislav Lhotka <lada lhotka elsatnet cz>]

Hello,

I am wondering about the rules for setting charset in the replies. When
I compose a new message, as soon as its body contains any non-US-ASCII
character, Evolution puts ISO-8859-2 into the charset field of the
Content-Type header line. This corresponds to my setting  of Default
character encoding in Tools->Mail Settings->Other. So far so good...

However, in replies, the charset set in the reply depends on the charset
of the original message, e.g.,
- if the original has US-ASCII or ISO-8859-2, the reply has ISO-8859-2,
- if the original has ISO-8859-1, the reply has UTF-8.
Some mailers are not able to handle UTF-8 correctly so it causes real
problems. And it seems there is no way how to influence this automatic
charset setting.

I'd suggest to include a config option for selecting specific charset in
*all* outgoing messages that do not conform to US-ASCII, perhaps
account-wise. The automatic behavior may be a real pain for people that
have to communicate both in English and their native language that
happens to use weird characters.

Cheers, Lada


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Ladislav Lhotka