The default text encoding for message display

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	The default text encoding for message display
Date	2024-06-19 10:57 +0100
Organization	Frantic
Message-ID	<861q4t45m7.fsf@example.com> (permalink)

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If I post an article to uk.test I get an email response including the
text of the article. When the article contains utf-8 characters they are
not displayed properly in the email with seamonkey. I think this is
because the email does not specify the encoding in its headers. So I
check in the settings for seamonkey and it says to use the default
encoding for the system, which on my debian system is LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

So why did the message not display properly? If I select the message and
check View -> Text -> Encoding it says "Western", and changing it to
unicode corrects the problem, at least temporarily.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2

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The default text encoding for message display Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-06-19 10:57 +0100
  Re: The default text encoding for message display Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> - 2024-06-19 20:38 +0100
    Re: The default text encoding for message display Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-06-19 21:33 +0100
      Re: The default text encoding for message display Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-20 11:05 +0100

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