Thus spake Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 6/28/2004:
> E-mail servers don't do anything with the "Data" part of a message
> other than to pass it on and a Received header. There's no reason for
> them to need to "understand" curly quotes or anything.
Dan was referring to the fact that some very old servers will only handle
7-bit ASCII. The original ASCII specification had only 128 characters
(2^7=128), including null and control characters, leaving just enough room
for upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and basic punctuation.
Since curly quotes are not part of the original 7-bit ASCII character set,
they require 8 bits. In some old mail servers, the 8th bit is stripped off,
leaving behind an incorrect 7 bit character.
There are not many of these old servers around, but you never know when one
of your messages might pass through one. That's why many people still use
plain text unless they know that every recipient can receive 8-bit
characters safely.
peter
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