[sylpheed:30065] Re: Sylpheed asked about charset conversion even in automatic setting

[Gene Goldenfeld]

Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:39:04 -0300
>Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez at wait4.org> wrote:
>
>> Before composing a message that I know it would contain UTF-8
>> characters, I configured Sylpheed to choose the outgoing charset
>> automatically, in Configuration > Common Preferences > Display >
>> Encoding.
>> 
>> Basically, I set it to use "Western Europe" as default charset (to be
>> used when no charset is specified), and "Automatic" for the outgoing
>> charset.
>> 
>> I thought it would be enough to send a message in UTF-8, but Sylpheed
>> asked me what to do when I hit the Send button.  Am I overlooking
>> something?
>
>If "Automatic" outgoing encoding is set, Sylpheed first try to convert
>the text to the language-specific encoding (ex. ISO-8859-1). If it
>fails, Sylpheed asks users whether to send it as UTF-8.
>
>If you always want to send messages with UTF-8, specify UTF-8 for
>outgoing encoding.

Hiro, Is there downside to having an option that allows users to set the
character set for incoming or outgoing mail to something other than
default?  

Gene