Disable Displaying of "Charset"

OpenPGP addon for Mozilla Thunderbird

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Disable Displaying of "Charset"

Forum: Enigmail Support

Creator: longsi

Created: 2017-03-08

Updated: 2017-03-08

longsi - 2017-03-08

When I use GPG directly to encrypt text, it just shows:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

When I use Enigmail, it shows:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Charset: utf-8

Anyway to remove the second line? Thanks!

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- Rob - 2017-03-08
  
  Anyway to remove the second line? Thanks!
  
  Why would you want to? That header contains important information that
  tells other clients how to render your data.
  
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Patrick Brunschwig - 2017-03-08

According to the OpenPGP specification (RFC 4880), the header is a legal optional header. Enigmail uses it to be able to determine how the encrypted content was encoded. Removing that header would break displaying messages properly most languages (except English).

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