Re: [Qemu-devel] REMINDER: QEMU SVN => GIT switch today at 5pm CST

[Jamie Lokier]

Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:18:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:14:21PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > Well I am going to try en_CA.UTF8.  At least your name appears correctly
> > > on my screen now.
> > 
> > And mutt sends it properly, although strangely using 8859 encoding rather
> > than utf.  I wonder why.
> 
> put something like this in your: ~/.muttrc
> 
> set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
> 
> It will make mutt use us-ascii if all characters in the message fit us-ascii,
> else utf-8.

It probably uses ISO-8859-1 when it can to provide slightly more
compatibility with old mail readers which cannot decode UTF-8.

I don't see any point forcing it to use UTF-8 in those cases.

-- Jamie