[pmmail-list] long-time question

[James Moe]

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:34:45 +0100 (CET), Maurice Gu=E9ron wrote:

  The first two are ways the mail message are sent over the mail transpo=
rt.
>
>Quoted printable
>
  Encodes the message characters in such a way that allows only 7 bit oc=
tets. It 
"escapes" special characters by translating them to the form "=3DXX", th=
e equals sign 
followed by two hexadecimal digits.
  For example, the ascii code for the ESC character is 1b (hex). So the =
quoted 
printable form of ESC is "=3D1b". A space is encoded as "=3D20".
  Quoted printable requires that lines be no longer than 76 characters. =
To indicate a 
line has been arbitrarily split, an equals sign (=3D) is the last charac=
ter of a line.

>8-bit
>
  Allows almost all 256 characters of an 8 bit (octet) character set. On=
ly CR (carriage 
return) and LF (line feed) are not allowed. 7bit allows only the first 1=
28 octets like 
US-ASCII.

>Do not perform character set translation
>
  Translating between 8 bit character sets (like iso-8859-1 to us-ascii)=
 is fairly 
straightforward. Translating from iso-8859-1 to chinese would likely pro=
duce garbage 
for chinese readers.
  The setting really does not do much for western languages.



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