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   Oli to Flavio Bessa   
   Error when posting   
   23 Feb 22 15:47:35   
   
   REPLY: 4:801/188 4925fcba   
   MSGID: 2:280/464.47 62164907   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7   
   Flavio wrote (2022-02-22):   
      
    FB> On 21 Feb 2022, Tommi Koivula said the following...   
      
    TK>> All I did was to add these lines:   
      
    TK>> read UTF-8      utf-8   
    TK>> post utf-8      UTF-8   
      
      
    TK>> Which Thunderbird are you using? The newest TB seems to always post   
    TK>> messages in utf-8. Annoying...   
      
    FB>      Thanks, I will give it a try.   
      
   That should work. I have the same configuration and no problems with posting   
   UTF-8 messages.   
      
    FB>      Exactly. That started to happen after the latest TB upgrade for   
    FB> Mac.   
      
    FB>      I checked other news clients and it worked fine...   
      
   Looks like this 'feature' has been introduced by Firefox:   
      
   https://old.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ps6gxp/is_text_enc   
   ding_options_gone/   
      
   I haven't used the newer Thunderbird versions. Does it always use UTF-8 even   
   if the text in the mail is only 7-bit ASCII?   
      
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