On 16/03/2008, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, you're right. > > "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s message on Fri, March 14 2008 > with subject "Re: Usage problem and display suggestion" has been > automatically converted to "UTF-8" encoding and passed along as a base64 > encoding. This is because Dotan's email contained characters in Hebrew > that cannot be encoded in ASCII or Latin 1. > > Now, I use thunderbird on a mac and I have no problems visualizing that > message.... you are using entourage, right? > > Dotan, do you experience similar problems with your signature in other > mail lists?
Only once, rather recently on the Ubuntu list a user contacted me off list to inform me that his messages are base64. He mentioned it to the server admin, and as I have not heard back from him I assume that the problem was resolved. Any mailer today should handle UTF-8 characters. Even in Latin languages, the occasional Umalat (German) or dot- || tilde- modified vowel (much of Europe) is extremely common and an entire message should not be base64 encoded because of that. Actually, Bruce is helping me now acquire a sample of the wrongly-encoded text, so as soon as I get that I will try to remember to remove those characters from posts to this list. The reason that I add them is to snag the gibberish in replies to my mails, so that I can improve the gibberish-correction engine at gibberish.co.il which I maintain. But that doesn't usually cause a problem for the readers of my mails, so far as I know this is only the second incident. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
