This may be partially related to the restriction of the editor. New message should put a correct Content-type: charset. Here's a list of things we need to do. 1) Get a default charset when creating a new message (#3965). Convert the default to mail charset (#3941) then remember the charset. 2) Update the charset when it's changed by the charset menu. 3) When sending the message, check the sending text and if ascii only then put us-ascii (it is preferred to use unicode for this check because only range check required, e.g. iso-2022-jp is 7bit only but not us-ascii). 4) Otherwise, use the remembered charset for the Content-Type: charset. 5) Use that charset to convert from unicode.

Target to M4, assign to myself (for now).

Reassigning to Jean-Francois, I have sent him a diff which includes the code to get a default charset and usage of the unicode converter. Task 2) and 3) may be done after M4.

JF, can you apply Naoki's patch, and then mark the bug for the milestone in which you want to fix the other issues.

I checked in the code, forgot to update the bug.

Put a line below, the specified charset will be used for the Content-type: user_pref("intl.charactesr_set_name", "iso-8859-1");

Additional info for my last comment... Put the line to prefs.js.

There was a spelling error in the check in. It really should be: 1. user_pref("intl.character_set_name", "iso-8859-1"); But the 4/5 check in had: 2. user_pref("intl.charactesr_set_name", "iso-8859-1"); Note the "charactesr" which has an extra "s" in it. If you use 2 rather than 1 in pref.js, the headers go out correctly as "iso-8859-1", otherwise it is "us-ascii". I'm going to re-open this because this should not be confusing to testers and developers who will be using it.

I talked to Frank and agreed that this we can specify in the release note. I will check in the fix for M5.

Reassigning to myself. In M5, we also need to hook up charset menu and detect us-ascii (see my original comment).

The pref bug fix was checked in mozilla/mailnews/msgCompGlue.cpp rev 1.21

** Checked with 4/12/99 Win32 build ** I can now use the correctly spelled name in prefs.js file and send out iso-8859-1 mail. The incorrect one no longer works. This verifies the fix.