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Re: using non-ascii chars on this mailing list

On 2002.10.29, at 04:29 PM, JJ wrote:

So, what client are you playing with? If I want to read this msg as UTF-7, I
must configure the mine (Entourage) to read "incoming messages without a
specific charset" as UTF-7, or configure a rule to "change charset of
email@hidden's incoming messages to UTF-7.

I usually use Apple Mail, but for that UTF-7 message, I used a text editor to compose it and a Perl script to send it to make sure the content would be exactly what I intended.

Shouldn't this work for UTF-8?

No. Any character sets that use an 8-bit encoding, such as UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, must be encoded with quoted-printable (it is usually done automatically by the email client) in order to meet the internet limitations. But the list server seems to stupidly mangle any messages encoded with quoted-printable as one of the headers in your message indicates:

X-Mime-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.apple.com id g9T8VAi15944

Couldn't the manager of this list add a simple

Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" (or 7 ;-)

to the header, though it isn't true? Non-special characters should still
work, don't?

The root cause of this problem is that the list server is configured to do what it's not supposed to do (converting messages). If the list manager reconfigure the list server to let all messages through as they are, that will be the fundamental (and easiest and most simple) solution. A mailperson should only deliver a message, not open a message and rewrite it.

Gaji
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