barney wrote:
>Katsuhiko Momoi wrote:
>
>>You can change the View | Character Coding menu setting to Western
>>(Windows-1252) and you should be able to see the smart quotes. Some
>>mail msgs lack the charset value in the ContentType header.
>>
>
>charset=us-ascii
>
>Is this a standard charset?
>
It is a known charset and is OK to use it as a charset value. Mozilla
does not happen to have an Character Coding menu item for it because it
is a proper subset of ISO-8859-1 and many other one-byte encodings. But
what we do in sending out mail msgs is to append the charset
value=US-ASCII if the message contains no 8-bit characters -- this
should happen whenever you choose an encoding which is a superset of
ASCII but your message contains no 8-bit characters.
Now if the message with smart quotes said "charset=US-ASCII", then the
charset value is incorrect. It should have said Windows-1252.
- Kat
>Switching to Win1252 did fix the display.
>Thanks a bunch.
>
