Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jody Belka wrote: 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

Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Michael G Schwern wrote: Why there it is, grouped with "Fonts" because someone doesn't realize that fonts are just about pretty pictures and encodings are about the actual data. Yeah, hateful. But wait, I spoke too soon! There's no "just upgrade to UTF-8 as necessary" setting. No, I have t

Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Omry Yadan
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

Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Jody Belka
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 > s

Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
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 s