Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> "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.
Dear Stuart,
I tried your suggestion of sending pound symbol. didn't make any
difference. Still 7-bit despite being set Quoted-printable.
In a way I am Glad you can't send such from Netscape. Would like to see
"all" email and news clients set like Netscape.
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