Ingo Schwarze wrote in
 <zqrdqncxfvpfh...@asta-kit.de>:
 ...
 |I just checked - even though i'm using the higer-level mutt(1) MUA
 |most of the time and even though the shell i'm starting mutt(1) from
 |has LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 set on that particular machine, the last sixteen
 |mails i sent all contained the explicit header
 |
 |  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
 |
 |and intentionally so.  Yes, i do occasionally send UTF-8 mail on

To be a hundred percent correct: MIME is not needed at all in that
case, unless a transfer-encoding had to be used (you do not show
that header), maybe because of overlong lines to-be-folded, or for
whatever reason.  (But it is swallowed by consumers of course.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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