[pmmail-list] Strange character substitutions

[Kenn Yuill]

Hello Carl,
  In reply to your e-mail on Sun, 26 Oct 2003.

The experts here should correct me, as I am not one, but I wonder if it
is your headers

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

whereas I was told many years ago that we should use

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

for greatest compatibility with the myriad of clients & servers out
there.

Your topic brings up the problem that I have with accented characters,
which appear very often in various newsletters here in Canada and are
not displayed correctly by PMMail/2.  Would my case be resolved by
switching to

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

or is it better to use the following?

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Ciao,
      Kenn
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The Original E-mail below, sent by Carl Gehr on Sun, 26 Oct 2003
17:25:54 -0500 (EST) to pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com, stated:

Just FWIW, I received my copy of the posting [see below] with all of
the characters as I typed them.  This makes me suspect it is the
sender
of some mail that is creating the problem.  But, how do I know what
they are doing so I might suggest that they are causing problems?

Thanks,
Carl





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