On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Shlomi Tal wrote: > I've built a UTF-8 sig for my outgoing messages: > > |----------------------| > | a BOY ♂ ... | > | a GIRL ♀ ... | > | they MEET ♂♀ ... | > | HERE WE GO! | > | ♂♥♀ | > |----------------------| > > with Unicode symbols from the U+26xx block. However, it doesn't show up at > all: neither in Compose, nor when I send a message to myself, nor when I > send a message to someone else.
♂ (U+2641), ♀(U+2640), and ♥(U+2665) in your message arrived intact at my mailbox. (I'm reading your message with Pine running under xterm under ko_KR.UTF-8 locale. This message is being composed with Vim 6.x.) The reason your recipient or yourself couldn't see them is that probably your message doesn't have MIME charset parameter specified in Content-Type field. By manually setting encoding (in your browser or mail client), you should be able to see them. Your message has merely Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed It should have Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Hotmail and most other webmail services used to have a lot of things to be desired in terms of I18N and MIME standard compliance. However, recently they got much better and I'm almost sure there's a way to specify that you want to encode your outgoing emails in Unicode(UTF-8). Jungshik Shin
