Re: [NTLK] Strange characters in messages?

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 08:20:02 EST

on 11/02/02 08:05, Chris Searles at csearles_at_netcologne.de wrote:

>> 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?)

Nope, they are not.

-Laurent. 

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