The default text encoding for message display

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From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
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Subject	The default text encoding for message display
Date	Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:57:36 +0100
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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.

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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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