In a message of Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:52:41 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes: >>I think this may be an advantage of living in a part of the world >>where ASCII is too small. Once I got unicode up and working as text, >>that is pretty much all I have to worry about. iso-8859 is finally >>dying around here, though I still have this mouthful in my .mh_profile >>to handle it. > >I am still kind of surprised that you don't see more; it seems to me >that a lot of programs want to base64 anything if they see anything with >the high bit set. The mailing list software used here is one example; >it will automatically reencode the message as base64 if it sees any >8-bit characters.
Hmmm. You are right about that. And of course I see mailman mailing lists with the default charset as unicode all day long. So I have likely misunderstood my problem. Next time I get one I will make sure to save it for forensic analysis. Laura _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
