On 10/21/20 10:50 PM, H Ian Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when setting up a new mailing list on a rented (shared) server, we noticed 
> that French accented letters are dropped.

If you as list admin set the list's preferred language to French, the
charset will be iso-8859-1.


> Can this setup be changed (technoically speaking) to "UTF-8" and 8bit 
> encoding?
> 
> We have no control over the serverm, but the provider's support team is 
> responsive and helpful - how would I best ask them to make the change to 
> UTF-8 happen?


See the FAQ article at <https://wiki.list.org/x/15958250>, however as
the article notes, setting the character set to utf-8 will cause message
bodies to be encoded as base64, not 8bit.

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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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