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Re: The default text encoding for message display

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Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> writes:

> Does it work any better if you explicitly select "Unicode (UTF-8)" as
> the fallback encoding, rather than "Default for Current Locale"?  Just
> wondering if perhaps SeaMonkey isn't detecting your system encoding as
> being UTF-8.  Also make sure you're looking at the fallback encoding
> for display, and not the default used for composing messages.

Yes it does work better if I do that.

> The headers of your message here, that I'm replying to, include:

I didn't post with Seamonkey here, but it wasn't the posting which was
the issue, it was displaying an incoming email.

> One thing I do find is that, when reading messages in the "Message
> Pane" rather than opening them in a separate window, they are
> sometimes initially displayed with the wrong encoding, but hiding and
> re-showing the Message Pane (press F8 a couple of times) fixes that.

Yes same here. I guess it doesn't matter if I can set the default
encoding, but what was the default encoding if it wasn't the system
default?

This character:

—

should make gnus put a utf-8 header.

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