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. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment http://www.YouUnlimited.co.uk/ - management courses
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