On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 20:42, Mark Crispin wrote: > > If there's no charset in Content-Type, I don't send it. uw-imap seems to > > send us-ascii if content-type is text/*. > > There is no such thing as a standards-compliant message without a charset > that is not also US-ASCII.
But is there a reason to send it? I don't see it mentioned anywhere that charset should always be sent with text messages. Client could default it to US-ASCII just as well if it's not there.