On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:20:52AM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: > I noticed that at least one response which quoted my "M�nchen" example > did not do the same, so when viewing the HTML-ized mail archives, IE 5.5 > quite reasonably displayed the whole message in UTF-7, concealing the > example.
I wouldn't classify it as reasonable; text that is labeled with the charset (as all mail is, at least implicitly) shouldn't be displayed with a different charset unless specificially told to or the text is invalid in the labeled charset. Plain ASCII should always be assumed over UTF-7, as it's more likely to be correct. OE's read FTP sites as UTF-7, which was confusing, and clearly wrong, as I've never seen UTF-7 used as a filename encoding. On a side note, every time I use one of the library's computers for webbrowsing, I find it set to interpret all pages as Thai (Windows)/ Arabic (Windows)/Chinese (HZ) or some other character set. Are there still that many unlabeled pages out there that this is nessecary? I'd assume it was getting better, but I have no real reason to make that assumption. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet)
