At 1998-10-30 11:47, Chris Newman wrote:
UTF-7 has the following problems:
* far worse backwards compatibility than quoted-printable. Some people
hate MIME due to what they consider "quoted-unreadable". If you use
UTF-7, there will be lots of people who will start hating Unicode as a
result.
* The uptake of the 8BITMIME SMTP extension has been excellent. This
means that unencoded UTF-8 with CTE 8-bit is usually possible. UTF-8
doesn't have double-encoding or searching problems.
OK. So how's this:
1. Pick a charset, in this order: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, some other common
charset, UTF-8.
2. Use 7bit CTE if you can. Otherwise, use 8bit CTE.
3. Send the message. If the recipient complains that SMTP mangled your
8bit text, resend using quoted-printable CTE.
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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA