Re: TB: Problems with Charsets by Sending into NNTP

Shanky-TMW wrote:
> I have a Problem with my Thunderbird (V1.0.5)
>
> TB send all Messages in UTF-8 (Windows 1225), if I used Western ISO 
> 8859-1 on the Send Message Font Option.

"1225"?  I can't find any reliable reference to "Windows-1225" -- are 
you sure you don't mean "windows-1252"?  That is definitely not the same 
thing as UTF-8, not even close.


> If I use 8859-15, it sends in 8859-15.

ISO-8859-15 defines these particular characters that 8859-1 does not:
  € Š š Ž ž Œ œ Ÿ
(All of these are also defined in Windows-1252; however, their encoding 
values are different than those defined under Unicode/UTF-8.)

For a message using one of those characters, if your selected encoding 
is ISO-8859-1, TB/Mozilla must select a different charset.  By default, 
it will prompt you to send in UTF-8; if you don't want to use that 
encoding, then you need to pick a different one.

In your case, you might be better off simply defining your default 
composition (outgoing) charset to be ISO-8859-15 (or Windows-1252, or 
UTF-8).


For more advanced control, you can define a "fallback" encoding to be 
used when the selected charset doesn't cover all the characters in use. 
You define a fallback for each character set you want to use.  So, for 
instance, you can define this preference:
  intl.fallbackCharsetList.ISO-8859-1

to be    UTF-8     or     ISO-8859-15,Windows-1252

In the first instance, Moz will automatically convert an 8859-1 message 
to UTF-8 without prompting; in the second case, it will convert the 
8859-1 message to 8859-15, if that encoding works; if not, it will 
convert to Windows-1252, if *that* encoding works; if neither works, it 
will prompt you to convert to UTF-8 or return to select a different 
character set.

--
Michael Cowperthwaite

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