Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let's see what we get back...
You get 7-bit characters, with the eighth bit, if present, cleared
(so "fxe" becomes "fxe": Antti-Pekka will see different strings there
in this direct email from me to him, while he'll see the same string
appear twice, like the rest of you, in the copy he receives through
the mailing list). The reason is that noc002.aitg.com, the machine
that runs this mailing list, is configured to do just that. It even
says so itself, explicitly adding header lines to messages that it
has, for instance, converted from quoted-printable to plain text, or
dropped (or decoded) an attachment.
Now, since it does that, it seems more than a little weird that it
makes all those messages contain _these_ header lines:
| Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This doesn't make sense. You can't encode ISO 8859-1 in seven bits,
since it's an eight bit character set. My guess is that whoever
configured noc002.aitg.com to do these conversions (in itself a great
boon to a mailing list like this, may I add) made a small mistake, and
forgot to allow for eight bit character sets. My advice would be to
change the "7bit" to "8bit" in the above, and ship out the 8859-1
characters. It will work as expected, and for people on systems that
don't use that character set, their email software will convert to
their local character sets for them when it sees those header lines
correctly specified.
-tih
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