This /is/ all very hateful indeed actually. And don't let anything you'll read below allow you to think I believe otherwise. Not that that'd be likely.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:20:35AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > The best part is it will seem to do this randomly, not just when I hit > send, but while I'm editing or working in another window it sees fit to > steal focus and say "HEY! OMG! LOOK! Let me tell you about the DANGERS > OF UTF-8!" Hateful bit number 1. It's not actually random. It's thunderbird doing a background save into your drafts folder, and deciding that anything that would happen on an actual send needs to happen anyway. Like I said, hateful. > Then I get a choice. No question is asked, but I get a choice anyway. I > can [Cancel]... but I wasn't doing anything. [2] Does this mean it will > cancel the whole message and maybe close the window or just not send the > message? Kind of ominous. Then there's [Send Anyway] and does that mean to > go ahead and send it in UTF-8 which is what you were warning me about or to > go ahead and send it in my current apparently non-Unicode character set? > And, finally, there's [Send in UTF-8] which is the most sensical of them > all... but since you so rudely interrupted my typing do you mean to send it > right now or when I'm done editing? [3] Hateful bit number 2. Really not a very well designed gui this, no. Since it's really referencing the background draft save, i'm pretty sure that if you [Cancel], it merely cancels the saving of the draft, and nothing else. Been a while since I checked though. > Bestest of all is it asks me this FOR EVERY MESSAGE! There's no "always do > this". I've looked through the Composition preferences and there's nothing > about character encodings. I get the choice between "plain text" and lord > knows what that means these days, and HTML. There's just a black smear on > the spot where the "Quoted Printable" option would be for I burnt out that > part of my brain which processes those words. And last, but most definitely not least, hateful bit number 3. Oh, I think you'll absolutely /love/ this one. The option to control this, is of course to be found in the *Display* preferences. Why, of course it is. Where else would you fucking put it thunderbird. From there, it's into Fonts & Encodings: Fonts, where you'll find a "Character Encodings" section. J -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org
