Re: [NTLK] Strange characters in messages?

From: Chris Searles (csearles_at_netcologne.de)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 08:05:59 EST


>That's just the way MIME encodes characters outside the 7-bit ASCII
>range. As long as I don't use such characters, my mail software will post
>the message as an ASCII mail, but if I do, it will use MIME encoding.
>That's usually fine, as almost every mail client out there knows how to
>handle MIME encoding, but our list server doesn't -- it strips the
>information about the encoding in the header but keeps the MIME codes in
>the mail itself, so the recipients mail client doesn't realize the mail
>is MIME encoded and doesn't decode it.

But aren't characters such as French accents within the 7-bit ASCII
range? (Or, in other words, how far does the 7-bit ASCII range extend?)

Chris Searles

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