On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Michael J. Hu=DFmann 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.
Yep, you're basicially correct Michael. Once eCartis 1.0 comes out it
will contain a brand-new MIME handling library that will fix this and
other problems that have to do with stripping everything down to
plain-text for maximum compatability.
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