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How to send email in encoding does not show up in list?

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gholk
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I want to send some email in big5 (a traditional chinese encoding used in taiwan). but big5 does not show up in `preference > display > font > advance > encoding > outgoing mail`

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-character-encoding

there are only 8 encode to choose. (utf8, greek, japan, 2 type of simplify chinese, 2 type of europe, korea) how can i send mail in big5?

I want to send some email in big5 (a traditional chinese encoding used in taiwan). but big5 does not show up in `preference > display > font > advance > encoding > outgoing mail` https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-character-encoding there are only 8 encode to choose. (utf8, greek, japan, 2 type of simplify chinese, 2 type of europe, korea) how can i send mail in big5?

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Matt
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why can you not use unicode? it includes Egyptian hieroglyphs. As well as simplified and traditional Chinese and Japanese. See https://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/chinese/

gholk
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I can not. because some old machine run bbs accept only big5 encoding .