261471 - No way to enforce sending mail message in the selected character encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249530

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Max Alekseyev]

Mozilla OS/2 build 2004081920 (release 1.8a3)

I'm trying to send a message using KOI8-R charset. When I press send button
MailNews reports:

``The message you composed contains characters not found in the selected
Character Encoding. While you can choose a different Character Encoding, it is
usually safe to use Unicode for mail.  To send or save it as Unicode (UTF-8),
click OK. To return to the Composer window where you can choose a different
Character Encoding, click Cancel.''

I do NOT want to use UTF-8, neither to change the Character Encoding. I want to
send the message AS IS in the selected Character Encoding (i.e., KOI8-R), and I
do not care if some hypothetical characters will be lost. Visually my message
looks fine and do not see any special characters that cannot be encoded in KOI8-R. 
If I knew which character are ``not found in the selected Character Encoding'',
I would simply remove them. Unfortunately I do not see any of them.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249530 ***