414657 - Want an "upgrade to UTF-8 as necessary" option

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[schwern]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

Thunderbird currently asks me for each message I send that happens to have a non-ASCII character in it if I would like to send it as UTF-8.  While it's nice that it asks, it does get tiresome.  I don't want to send all my mail as UTF-8, just when it's necessary (I admit, I might just be old school and still a little nervous about sending character-encoded email).

It would be nice if there was an "upgrade my character encoding as necessary and stop asking me about it" option.  I just don't want to have to think about character encodings if it can be avoided, and it appears to be avoidable as Thunderbird already has the logic necessary to detect it and tell me about it.

A less tactful but also more detailed version of this bug report can be found here.  Please note, this is from a mailing list about *hating* software so the tone is supposed to be hateful.
http://schwern.hates-software.com/2008/01/29/e100622d.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set outgoing character encoding to Western ISO-8859-1

2. Open a new compose window.  Put in a subject.

3. Type or paste something into the body that's in UTF-8 but not Western like smart quotes:

184. When operating a military vehicle I may *not* attempt something 
     “I saw in a cartoon”.

3. Hit "send".
Actual Results:  
The UTF-8 warning dialog appears.

Expected Results:  
Maybe the dialog has an "always upgrade to UTF-8" checkbox or maybe it's an encoding preference.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 410333 will make this a non-issue.

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

Now that bug 410333 is fixed, should this one here be resolved?

Comment 3

[schwern]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Now that bug 410333 is fixed, should this one here be resolved?

I'm fine with that.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM