Fwd: RE: Newsletter Technical Feedback

[Dave Liquorice]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:18:03 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

> It's very common to this day for gateways to convert all 8-bit chars 
> in email to equivalent 7-bit "quoted printable" format - no data is 
> lost, the receiving email s/w has to be able to decode the 7-bit 
> quoted printable stuff to normal 8-bit!
> 
> BTW: Quoted printable uses "=9F" without the quotes (so 3 7-bit chars)
>      to indicate the single 8 bit char value 9F hex

Which is far as it goes but what character is represented by 0x9F varies 
from character set to character set... So even if the link is 8 bit 
transparent the end result still might not be what you expect. Best to 
stick to 7 bit as those are the only characters (almost) cast in stone.

Cheers
Dave.