Setting Mail Default Encoding

Is it possible to set outgoing messages encoding to for example UTF-8 and how?

Amazing! The dingbat-in-my-sig solved a long standing problem for me.
I write in croatian, using characters as š, ž, č, ć, đ.
Every time an email went out and it was plain text, the characters displayed properly.
Any time the mail would be "rich text", the recipients (especially using Outlook on Windows) would get to see chinese characters instead of these ones.
I really grew tired of forcing every email to plain text mode.
Putting a dingbat (i used the Daring Fireball one ✪) at the end of my sig now lets me send rich text emails with croatian characters displaying properly!
Thanks Tom!
Message was edited by: Daniel Kasaj

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> Warren Tang wrote:
>> Warren Tang wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
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