Reports again

[James Wilde]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 08:52 , James Wilde wrote:

> 
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 19:24 , tjoen wrote:
> 
>> James Wilde schreef op ma 29-08-2011 om 11:47 [+0200]:
>> 
>>> As far as I can establish, my computer is set to display UTF-8 by default.
>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text-html; charset=utf-8">
>> 
>> Your mail was sent as iso-8859-1 according to the headers
> 
> Thanks, Tjoen, that was a surprise.  I'm fairly new to the Mac, and still
> groping around, even though OSX is based on FreeBSD.  I discovered that
> mail coding was set to automatic.  I would have assumed that to mean that,
> if an incoming mail was set to UTF-8 it would code the reply the same, and
> if it was ISO8859, it would reply in that, but I see yours is in UTF-8 and
> still mine came back as ISO8859.  I've changed the default to UTF-8.
> 
Later:  just checked this email, which should have been sent as UTF-8 since
I'd changed the default, or thought I had, and I see it's still in 
ISO8859.  I can see I'm going to have to delve deeper into the workings of
the Mac than I had hoped to have to do.

//James