As a Debian Lenny use I still use Thunderbird 1.5. let me tell you something far more hateful:
Many of my emails are written in Hebrew, which by definition means I get that warning for every such email. do you know what happen if I press ESC to that dialog? The hated piece of crap decides that I surely want to send it without unicode, and the content of the email is transformed into a steaming pile of question marks! Michael G Schwern wrote: > Thunderbird sees fit to warn me before I send something that contains > UTF-8 characters. I guess something I cut & pasted into my signature > file has some of them new fangled "smart quotes" or whatever. It > presents me with this big dialog box telling me all the consequences > of using Unicode or se[1]nding Unicode in the current character set > (without telling me what that character set is). > > 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!" > > 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] > > 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. > > There appears to be no, "just do the right thing and shut up you > stupid blit" setting. More software needs one of those. > > > [1] God damnit, it just did it. > [2] And again for a second compose window. > [3] For the rhetorically impaired, those are all rhetorical. >
