OT: Mail encoding (was: German style orthography)

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:48:51 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

>On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:53:15 -0800, bob thornton <arcanesock@...> wrote:
>>
>> This is the mail as I received it, excepting my own
>> frippery. Please do tell me what the doodlyjiggers are
>> that weren't shown.
>
>Apparently, his email was in UTF-8 but it was marked as iso-8859-1
>instead. Here's an attempt to send it legibly -- I presume Gmail will
>make UTF-8 out of it, and I hope the list won't mangle it too badly.
>(Though it may decide to use MIME encoding, either QP or Base-64,
>rather than 8-bit.)
I'm writing my mails online at the listserv.brown.edu site, and I have my
browser default set to UTF-8 (so I saw Bob's reply exactly the way I had
sent it). Is there any way of telling that site that it should use UTF-8
encoding?

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust