Whenever I compose a new email message in Thunderbird, it defaults to the Western (ISO-8859-1) encoding, and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 every time.

How do I change the default?

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Tools → Options → Display → Formatting → Fonts → Advanced... → Character Encodings → Outgoing Mail:

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Aha! Thanks! – hpy May 26 '11 at 15:30
Well, that is somewhat illogical to put it there … Thanks! – queueoverflow Mar 31 at 20:22
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