On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:28:40PM +0100, Bjoern JACKE wrote:
> On 2004-01-31 at 12:45 +0000 Richard Jones sent off:
> >I'm wondering if the emails I'm sending out aren't well-formed, or
> >whether Hotmail isn't supporting UTF-8 properly.  Does anyone have any
> >experience in this matter?
> 
> it's a hotmail problem. Almost all free webmail providers just support 
> "their local most common" encoding. Europeans mostly just support 
> iso8859-1, where US and British providers often just support ASCII. A 
> very good mail provider, who by default uses UTF-8 for webinterface 
> and sending (and displays other encoding correct) is www.myrealbox.com 
> but this is just a beta test experiment of Novel and they don't accept 
> new testers since Dec 2003. If anyone knows other webmail providers 
> who support UTF-8 and also other legacy encodings, let me know.

Well, I wrote http://www.postmaster.co.uk/ and it supports UTF-8.
Indeed it uses UTF-8 by default.

This is why I think Hotmail is wrong - but I'm still worried that
perhaps my message itself may be wrongly encoded somehow.

Rich.

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