[Users] What do menu items under View|Character encoding do, precisely?

[Paul]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:23:33 -0700
Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote: 

> What happens when I select View|Character encoding|Unicode and I
> then read a message with Content-Type:
> text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 ?  

It uses the character encoding that you choose.

> Is UTF-8 just a default/fallback, or does it override the
> information from the header?  

It overrides it.

> If it is just a fallback, what does Automatic do?

Automatic uses the character encoding specified in the message.

> If it does override, is there any way to configure a
> fallback?

Set the hidden option 'utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail'.

with regards

Paul


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