Because certain MTAs behave buggy with UTF-8 content. Using this function is the most reliable display to guarantee content not being mangled by MTAs.
HTH,
Garvin
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Hm, ok - this is opposite to what my thoughts on this were. I'm reluctant to change this though, because I remember that everytime we patch this rather central mail sending function, it breaks at another place. :-/
Maybe for a 2.0.1 release we could at least implement a configuration directive to force sending base64. I've added this to our issue tracker on github (https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/issues/248).
Regards,
Garvin
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