From: "Shlomi Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've built a UTF-8 sig for my outgoing messages: > > 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. > > Please tell me how I can put it right. As far as I know, Hotmail, when sent from the web interface at www.hotmail.com , skips the charset= line in the English interface. Most of the e-mail I read and write are in Japanese, so I had some problems at one time. I tried various things and noticed that if you change the interface language (Options --> Language), Hotmail inserts a charset= line common with that language. Two test messages sent a few minutes ago confirm this: Japanese interface: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; format=flowed English interface: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The problem is that Hotmail is leaving off the charset= line in English mode and does not provide a convenient method to set it to what you wish. Perhaps one of the other interface languages always uses UTF-8? Perhaps you can try this out, though I doubt it. One way that you can force a charset= line (UTF-8 in your case) is to not to use the web interface but to do your Hotmail e-mail through Outlook Express or one of the other compatible programs. Sending Hotmail messages from Outlook Express does retain the charset= line that is set (View --> Encoding --> xxx) , but then you loose the web interface. Good luck, Ben Monroe
