> i have added the following: > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Charset is correct: windows-1255. Provide suggested change in boundary header, not in HTML part: ----=635C8EE9CBF2420992FF_928E_A48C_7F79 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > but it seems that in one certain computer, outlook simply ignores this tag > and show the content in iso_8859_8 (i think) ISO-8859-8 and Windows-1255 are compatible. > the result is ofcourse gibberish > the user has to manually change the encoding to utf8 and then everything > become readable. Notice that utf-8 is flexible encoding. I.e. it can use 1,2,3 and 4 bytes. If you look in utf-8 encoding process and you will find that your text simly coded in 7bit ($80-$FF), not in utf-8. However, as is 7bits, there is no difference you decoding it with utf-8, windows-1255 or ISO-8859-8 - result is the same, readable message. Refference: RFC 3629. Problem here is that e-mail reader cannot determinate correct default charset. > the thing is, this happens only on a certain computer (he said some of his > recipients also has this problem) so i think it might be an option not set > correctly in outlook? i know this is not outlook forum but i thought mayb > someone else here encountered this problem as well Outlook (as any other client) always try to determinate default charset from messgae header or boundary. No need for extra additional/manual settings - if it find it and use these informations correctly. Anyway, I tried that original message with Outlook 5 and there is no problem at all. It show Hebrew signs and showa it from right to left. Probably another Outlook version is a problem. If message is composed following RFC exactly - will be no problem at all on any e-client. Sasa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
