Re[4]: Life after PMMail

[Trevor Smith]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:11:27 +0300, Cristian Secara wrote:

>*I* am sure of this. I have once posted it to this list, at that time I
>had to send a message to someone in Germany, using the german language.
>In some circumstances, some characters disappears. In others, they are

Yes, in sending, those characters do get changed. This is the same
with *all* email programs. Many email servers on the Internet can not
handle 8 bit characters and 8 bit characters are required to display
umlauts, etc.

We were discussing PMMail changing messages it *receives*.

>The biggest problem is when PGP signing messages: something (PMMail or
>PGP SDK) collapses all extended characters found in text.

Yes, this is a known problem.


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