[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8147: New message should not default to CP1252

#8147: New message should not default to CP1252
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   Reporter:  rq                 |      Owner:  czeidler
       Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
   Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  R1
  Component:  Applications/Mail  |    Version:  R1/Development
 Resolution:                     |   Keywords:
 Blocked By:                     |   Blocking:
Has a Patch:  0                  |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by axeld):

 Replying to [comment:7 bonefish]:
 > On a general note, I really doubt that it makes any sense to allow the
 user to choose a character set these days.

 How so? The number of clients supporting UTF-8 should be greatly
 increased, but that's all. I wouldn't mind using UTF-8 again as a default
 after the installation. Alternatively, Mail could also use locale
 depending settings (I would guess there are only a handful of encodings we
 would need to encode this way), and could silently fall back to UTF-8 when
 the mail cannot be encoded else. That would make the preferences item
 superfluous which I think would be a nice aim.

 Replying to [comment:9 rq]:
 > But showing it in both Read and Write windows is way too geeky, IMO.

 Why? It's the same in Thunderbird, BTW. It certainly doesn't need to be a
 very obvious feature (thanks to Clemens, I don't recall how Mail looks
 like), a menu item would certainly suffice. I just wouldn't entirely
 remove it just yet.

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