How not to encode the To: field?

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Wed Jul 3 19:21:43 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:27:02PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>"François" in the "To:" filed will be encoded as 
>"=?utf-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lz?=". Is there a way to just use "François" 
>without being encoded in the "To:" field? Thanks.

The rfc2047 encoding is required for non-ascii characters in certain 
parts of the message header.  There is no config variable to disable 
(only) it.

That said, unsetting $charset will turn off the encoding process. 
However, it will also break many many other things in mutt.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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