#3177: mutt wish: send_charset default "us-ascii:utf-8"
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Reporter: anto...@dyne.org | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.19
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment(by vinc17):
Hmm... I forgot spam filtering. Charset information can be taken into
account in antispam rules (without having to analyze the body). For
instance, with iso-8859-1, one is certain that this isn't Russian spam.
Concerning other uses, different users have different needs. Some users
may prefer UTF-8, but other users may prefer ISO-8859-1 (e.g. still used
very much in LaTeX files, at least here in France).
Let's also mention that emacs 21 is still used by many people (e.g. under
Debian/stable, and though the next stable version will be released soon,
not all users will upgrade immediately, for various reasons) and its UTF-8
support is broken. So, no, ISO-8859-1 is not dead (yet).
Now, with good tools (such as Mutt), the internal encoding of e-mail
messages should not matter concerning the behavior. The size of (encoded)
messages can still matter, even though this isn't really significant in
most cases. Note that the 1% mentioned above may be something like 10% in
some cases.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3177#comment:8>
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