Force Mail.app to send UTF-8

A new Mac OS X hint suggests the following defaults change:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"

Why? Because Windows email clients may display messages originating from Apple Mail much more faithfully. And in any case, everybody should be using UTF-8 anyway.

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