how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

[Mike Wright]

On 09/07/2012 02:10 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be a bit OT but I know where the geniuses lurk.
>
> Whenever I send an email using Thunderbird the following header is
> always included:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> How do I change it to charset=UTF-8?
>
> I have climbed throughout about:config and changed/re-ordered everything
> that mentions ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and still all outbound mail contains
> the undesired header information.
>
> I think that header causes Latin-Extended to show up as blobs with a ?
> inside; here's one: ¢  Should be a US cent sign.
>
> Or am I looking in the wrong place?  Locale or something?
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>

Doesn't it figure.  For some reason, even after a restart, it now works. 
  Possibly a caching issue.

Sorry for the noise.