[exim/exim] [RFE] Change default encoding from us-ascii to utf-8 (Issue #3198)

thomaschaaf via Exim-dev <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:07:29 +0000
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Feature Summary
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I would like the messages sent by deliver.c to default to utf-8 instead of us-ascii.

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Problem Statement
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Allow e.g. subject to contain unicode chars.

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Proposed Solution
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Replace all occurences us-ascii with UTF-8

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Alternatives Considered
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Adding

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Subject: Warnung/Warning: $rh_subject

to warn_message_file causes errors in rspamd (MULTIPLE_UNIQUE_HEADERS).

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