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Outgoing mail character encoding

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Skibbi
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I would like to setup Thunderbird for sending outgoing mails with ISO-8859-2 encoding. Unfortunately there is no such encoding on the list of allowed encodings. Why?

I would like to setup Thunderbird for sending outgoing mails with ISO-8859-2 encoding. Unfortunately there is no such encoding on the list of allowed encodings. Why?

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Matt
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Why do you want to set an 8bit ascii code page for your mail? Most modern operating systems and email use UNICODE.

Skibbi
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I need to test something, so I thought Thunderbird will allow me to set the encoding. I'm perfectly fine with unicode in my daily work. Maybe this can be set somehow with about:config?

Matt
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I have no idea about changing the entries in the list. I do not even know where they come from.