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 Message 2227 
 Tommi Koivula to Oli 
 Error when posting 
 23 Feb 22 18:00:36 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.0 62165a1e
REPLY: 2:280/464.47 62164907
PID: TripleD/OS2 1.3 20220108
BBSID: RBB
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: 0200
TID: hpt/os2-wc 1.9 2022-02-19

> That should work. I have the same configuration and no problems with posting
UTF-8 messages.
>
>   FB>      Exactly. That started to happen after the latest TB upgrade for
>   FB> Mac.
>
>   FB>      I checked other news clients and it worked fine...
>
> Looks like this 'feature' has been introduced by Firefox:
>
> https://old.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ps6gxp/is_text_e
coding_options_gone/
>
> I haven't used the newer Thunderbird versions. Does it always use UTF-8 even
if the text in the mail is only 7-bit ASCII?

I have the newest TB in this computer. This always posts UTF-8. :(

However, if the message is plain 7 bit ascii, the CHRS kludge really doesn't
matter. ;)

'Tommi

--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/91.6.1
 * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/1.0)
SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 80/1 90/1 92/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/340
SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/330 331 153/7715 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/1 6
SEEN-BY: 221/242 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 317 424 426 428 452
SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038
SEEN-BY: 301/1 113 812 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81
SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 5058/104
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