[CH] habaneo, non-ascii and SMTP
Peter Moss (pmoss@yoda.alt.za)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 19:38:35 RSA-2
Hi
The simple answer is you can't do it and don't try to because
you don't know what reader the recipient is using or if it is
even capable of unencoding your non-complient effort. Not only
that once in digest form no reader on this earth will correctly
display it.
SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) can not transfer without
some from of encoding any character that is non US-ASCII. No
matter what. That is any character that is on a US keyboard
and nothing else except possibly the defined extended graphics
characters. You need to go look at a US-ASCII table to find
these. Be aware that even extended graphics support is not
universal. Those people that disregard this because idiot
software companies love adding features, create lines that look
like this on non "feature" filled readers.
Re:_=5BCH=5D_Haba=F1ero_or_Habanero_=3F?=
The only character set you should be using for email to the
outside world is US-ASCII or plain text.
This is a community service message ;-) Please take the time to
read and understand it.
Peter