[sylpheed:30068] Re: Sylpheed asked about charset conversion even in automatic setting

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:33:55 -0300
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez at wait4.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:45:05 +0900
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It confused me, as I thought Sylpheed would use UTF-8 automatically
> (as it was the best encoding), without asking me.

UTF-8 is not always the best encoding, because some mailing-list drivers
(especially web archiver) and some older MUAs still don't support it
(at least in Japan). So it's important to ask users before sending it.

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