I generally like to zip text files before sending, as otherwise they may be received in the body of the e-mail, rather than as an attachment, which I find annoying and sometimes troublesome. I then use Base-64 encoding.
However, you also need to take into account that if you're using any upper ASCII (including Spanish accents), they will show up incorrectly in the PC text file, unless you've made other provisions for that. Alicia On 12/16/2002 12:00, Virginia Wittmann wrote: >I've glanced thru an earlier message from Chris (tks!) about the options, >so I'm aware no compression. > >I'm having to send .xml files saved by BBEdit as text, DOS lines. > >These are web pages I have to translate the text on, and then send them >back. > >Can I send these .xml files (new MS -only?- .html coded files for web >pages) >attached as they are, trusting the 'service default' option to handle >them? > >Or should I specify base64? > >And should I / must I zip them? > >Much appreciate any help. > Alicia Gordon Gordon Word Artists French and Spanish Translation ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
