On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:45:47PM -0600, steve harley wrote: > > a quick sample shows the following encodings in emails on this list: > > us-ascii -- (the majority) used in your email and surprisingly used > by most of the non-US members; this encoding lacks any accented > characters or "non-typewriter" punctuation (such as curly quotes)
In my experience, several email clients will claim to be using a simple encoding such as us-ascii, but will still happily include "native" characters that have no meaning in that character set. The worst offenders tend to be Windows software that is actually using the Windows character set while claiming to use us-ascii, but I've seen other examples (one recent example being character streams that claimed to be UTF-8, but which actually contained high-character sequences that were invalid UTF-8; these, too, were really Windows character encodings). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
