*** The new variable sendmail-coding-system specifies the code
conversion for outgoing mail. The default value is nil.
Actually, there are three different ways of specifying the coding system for sending mail:
- If you use C-x RET f in the mail buffer, that takes priority. - Otherwise, if you set sendmail-coding-system non-nil, that specifies it. - Otherwise, the default coding system for new files is used, if that is non-nil. That comes from your language environment. - Otherwise, Latin-1 is used.