On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:05:54PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > One of the things that I've experienced with some webmail clients > before, though, is that they simply ignore the character set that the > browser sends with the message content (assuming one is sent---maybe > one isn't, making it a bit of a hard problem)
One rarely is sent, unless you use browser-specific hacks. Thank IE which failed to send it, and CGI scripts written for IE that break when the charset is mentioned, making it impossible for standards-complying browsers to do it properly...
