Hi, I have some software that invokes mutt (non-interactively) to send email with iso-8859-1 body text.
I've noticed that emails with accented characters are being sent with charset=unknown-utf8 instead of charset=iso-8859-1. The muttrc manpage says that the default value for send_charset is "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8" and that, "In case the text cannot be converted into one of these exactly, mutt uses $charset as a fallback". The default charset value is utf-8 (but the body text is not being entered via the terminal). There is no mention of unknown-8bit. I don't understand what conversion is referred to here. I would have thought (incorrectly, no doubt) that mutt would use the first character set in send_charset that could be the character set of the body (i.e. just detection, not conversion). But if that were the case, the default send_charset would almost always result in us-ascii or iso-8859-1 being used since most 8 bit characters are valid iso-8859-1. If my understanding were right, it would make more sense for the default send_charset to be "us-ascii:utf-8:iso-8859-1" (or "us-ascii:utf-8:unknown-8bit"). So I'm clearly not understanding how it works. But I'm only thinking this way because that's how vim works with its fileencodings variable. What am I not understanding? And how do I make mutt set the charset of outgoing mail to iso-8859-1 when it detects accented (iso-8859-1) characters? Thanks, raf
