From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:38:14 +1000 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87d3y0xrxl.fsf@rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273006972 10830 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 21:02:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:02:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 23:02:51 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9PGU-0001rb-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 23:02:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9PGU-0000pf-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 17:02:50 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8XdoQFlQnOcWwQbaFxEcjJLnM0I= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a86b9e45.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=gg2R0_IND?\A<6n_>>]9G[L?0kYOcDh@Za30YlQ[TC>ZhmgHHR_cY0ZY]7V?g9JYg^QI=H@BPZh6U Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177708 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73164 Archived-At: Chris Yocum writes: > While I have used emacs for a while as a text editor, etc. I am now > using VM 8.1.0 in emacs to compose and send mail as well. I noticed > that when I composed mail in either Message or Mail Mode that the MIME > attributes stated that I was sending a charset of us-ascii and I would > really like to send my mails with utf-8 set as the character set. > Does anyone know the magic incantation to get Mail/Message Mode to do > that? I am using EMACS 23.1.1 on amd64 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). > Thank you all very much in advance. > I'm not sure that is a good idea. From memory, the RFCs for mail specify messages should be 7 or possibly 8 bit. If you must use UTF-8, you probably have to set things up to send as MIME. Most mail servers will probalby handle UTF-8 fine, its the occasional one that doesn't which will cause things to go weird. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au