Fwd: RE: Newsletter Technical Feedback

[Alexander Sarras]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:21:44 +0100 (BST), Dave Liquorice wrote:

> 
> 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 "=3D9F" without the quotes (so 3 7-bit ch=
ars)
> >      to indicate the single 8 bit char value 9F hex
> 
> Which is far as it goes but what character is represented by 0x9F vari=
es 
> 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=
.
> 
Umh, err, but you=B4re notserious, are you. Nobody, not even an amarican=

would be dumb enough to use a qp-format without specifying the charset?
SaS
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