If anyone cares, the problem was that the signature delimiting string that we were using, "--+--" , was causing Hotmail display the message with 7bit encoded characters, regardless the encoding defined in the message headers.
Omar On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:30:37PM -0400, Omar Thameen wrote: > Just today, we've gotten a couple reports from list owners about > Hotmail not displaying certain messages properly. > > We've determined that this happens with text/plain messages which > are 7bit encoded, the symptoms being the display of characters > like "+ADw-". If you reload the page, about 50% of the time it > displays properly.
