>If you view the full headers for one of the "garbled" examples sent back
>to you by your correspondent, what mail client ("X-Mailer: XXXX") and
>text encoding ("Content-type: text/*; charset=XXXX") are used in his message?
Here's what the response had:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003D_01CC8B3C.19364F30"
- Winston
Ben Kennedy wrote:
>On 29 Nov 2011, at 12:51 pm, Winston Weinmann wrote:
>
>> When I use PowerMail's "Rich Text" HTML format for messages some
>people receive the message with odd characters inserted like this:
>
>Winston sent me an example directly (both as he sent out, and as
>forwarded back to him by a recipient claiming it was mis-formatted).
>The original looked correct to me in both Apple Mail and PowerMail.
>
>The appearance of the garbled result (as provided by your correspondent)
>is consistent with how the text would appear if originally encoded in
>UTF-8 but incorrectly decoded as "Windows 1252" (which is similar to ISO-
>Latin-1 but a bit different. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252>
>
>My inference: the recipient is using a broken (probably Windows-based)
>mail client that does not properly understand UTF-8 text encoding.
>
>If you view the full headers for one of the "garbled" examples sent back
>to you by your correspondent, what mail client ("X-Mailer: XXXX") and
>text encoding ("Content-type: text/*; charset=XXXX") are used in his message?
>
>-b
>
>--
>Ben Kennedy, chief magician
>Zygoat Creative Technical Services
>http://www.zygoat.ca
>
>
