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* N.M.Pathak [linux-india] <16/05/01 15:50 +0530>:
> While sending/recieving messages or newsgroup items , sometimes
> character encoding problems renders the message as "unreadable".
> This happens on some perticular servers, though ! Not on all.
> Somebody told me that it is do with some 8-bit characters and MIME
> encoding.
Search for the relevant RFCs. However, your newsreader / mail client must be
smart enough to interpret whatever encoding is thrown at it, unless the news
server mangles the MIME encoding.
> Can somebody explain this, please! Some pointers to releted web-pages
> will also do. Search results produce a galaxy of such sites, so I
> abondoned that option.
Search http://www.rfc-editor.org for these terms.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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