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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Is it possible to specify the charset to use for an outgoing message?
> Imagine that I write a Latin-1 message but I want to send it out as
> UTF-8.
> 
> Maybe <#part type="text/plain" charset=utf-8> does the trick?

Yup.

> But maybe that creates a multipart/mixed message with one part?  I
> wouldn't want that.

Nope.  There is always an implicit <#part type=text/plain...> unless you
do something special.

You can use the `charset' group parameter property as well.