On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:59:43PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: > Buddha Buck wrote: > > > > > >Maybe, maybe not.... On my machine right now, it is very easy for me to > >type various accented letters, like a, e, etc, making words like resume > >(or is that resume) nearly as fast to type as the non-accented version > >resume. > > Hmmm, that's not what I wrote... On my machine, I had accents on the a > and the e, and in the first two forms of "resume". There are now four > copies of the message in my "sent" folder (one to Mr. Nobody, one to the > list, and two to myself), all of which have the proper characters in it. > > It appears that an intermediate relayer is converting my utf-8 formatted > 8bit messages to "us-ascii" 7bit messages for no good reason. The > Japanese came out badly, as well....
This would be one of the reasons why I don't think utf-8 perl6 scripts are a good idea. The headers I received make no mention of character set - does your mailer mark the message in any way? If not, then STMP will assume it's good old 7 bit ASCII Nicholas Clark
