how to make thunderbird use utf-8?

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/08/2012 07:17 PM, Tim wrote:
> It may well be that unless you write a post that uses UTF-8 encoding,
> Thunderbird will use the lowest common denominator.  Lots of mail
> clients behave that way.
>
> e.g.  No matter what charset you set as your preferred default, if your
> message is contained within the US-ASCII repertoire, then it'll be sent
> as US-ASCII.  And if you include some characters beyond it, it may use
> an intermediate charset, if using UTF-8 isn't essential.

No, it doesn't.

If you have mailnews.send_default_charset set to UTF-8 it will send it in UTF-8 regardless.  Just check the header of this message.

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