On 17/05/2019 19.15, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net>:
On 17/05/2019 00.57, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Anyone know of a way to force Thunderbird to use ASCII only for outgoing e-mails? I'm trying to get rid of the hard-space (0xA0) for the first of two spaces after a period. Some e-mail and maybe mail servers don't handle it well. It is replaced by two question marks on the other end.
I've used the config editor to set mailnews.send_default_charset to ASCII (ends up 8bit in e-mail header) and 7bit. Neither works.
No, using ASCII is not related to having hard space or not (flowed text). I believe it is a standard, the servers must comply with it. Change servers.
Hard space character (0xA0) is not ASCII.
ASCII like seven bits? Because strictly speaking, ascii ends at 0x3F, but any 8 bit charset in use this side of the century ends at 0xFF. Man iso_8859-1 shows: Oct Dec Hex Char Description ─────────────────────────────────────── 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE So that's a perfectly legal character in 8 bit text. Since 1984 I have not seen anyone use 7 bit ascii. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)