Keith Whaley wrote:
SM 1.1.18, Mac OS 10.6.2.
I had occasionally been getting garbage characters showing up in my message
text body that replaced apostrophes, and the like.
When I checked Options/Character Encoding, I saw Western ISO-8859-1 was checked.
For various reasons, I don’t like ISO-8859-1 and prefer Unicode UTF-8.
That gets rid of the odd characters, but in a short time, they return, and
when I check Options/Character Encoding, it has jumped back to putting a
checkmark by ISO-8859-1 once again! All by itself. I did NOT change it.
I finally went to Options/Character Encoding/Customize List. Once there I
removed everything BUT Unicode UTF-8 from the Active Character Encoding List
panel on the right side. In essence, deleted everything but UTF-8.
My problem is, that setting refuses to ‘stick.’ Soon it goes back to having
one or more other character encodings listed, and something places checkmarks
beside ISO-8859-1 again!
This is getting quite annoying, and I’d like instructions for making my
selected changes stick, please...
keith whaley
You set two places first (I'm describing from Mac Point of view -
Windows and Unix/Linux will be different)
Preferences > Mail & News > Character Encoding.
Then open Edit > Mail & Newsgroup Accounts > Server settings > Default
Character Encoding. They've got to match.
Even if you do they are all over the place and will vary form message to
message. Even though they are sent as Text.
(Setting setting view > message body as > Plain Text, Simple HTML, or
Original HTML seems to make no difference. )
(If sent as HTML text it will be WYSIWYG there will be no strange
characters.)
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