"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
>
> I've set preferences to use Quoted Printable and sent a message both in
> HTML and Plaintext. I've also turned it back off and sent a test in html
> and plaintext . No difference in show Full header information show this
> on all my test post Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Right, quoted-printable is only useful when 8-bit characters are in use
(in fact, if I recall correctly, qp is exactly equivalent to 7bit if
only 7bit characters are in use). Are you able to type any
non-7bit-ascii characters on your keyboard? Try sending any accented
letter, the GB pound sterling symbol, or the Euro symbol. Anyone here
know if there are any 8bit characters that can be easily typed on a
standard US keyboard?
(Actually, if you're on windows, you can try the "hold down alt and dial
the character number on the numeric keypad" trick - dialing anything
above 127 will obviously require the 8th bit. AFAIK, no other OS
supports this trick)
4.x (and from your comments, mozilla too) only use qp if 8bit characters
(or possibly very long lines that won't be wordwrapped for some reason)
are detected in the message itself. This is one reason why I believe
that Netscape's qp implementation is probably not as evil as MS's.
Stuart.
