How not to encode the To: field?

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Wed Jul 3 22:54:07 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 05:37:31PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>OK. I see the problem. Gmail encode it as =?UTF-8..., but mutt encode 
>it as =?utf-8...
>
>Should it be in upper cases instead of lower cases?

No.  Per the rfc section 2, the charset names are case-independent.

>Is there a way to let mutt encode using "UTF-8"? Thanks.

No, mutt runs through a canonicalizer which lower cases in the process. 
Any client that is confused by this needs to be fixed.

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