Re: [CH] habaneo, non-ascii and SMTP

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Let us all have a moment of appreciation for our South African List
Cop...he speaks truth! cheers, Doug in BC....that is in Canada,
Peter!!!!!!

Peter Moss wrote:

> 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

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