CFMAIL and us-ascii/utf-8 charsets
I've finally got a multipart email working with CFMAIL under CFMX -- with many thanks to Bob Everland and his CF_EmailEveryone tag. However, I've run into a slight problem with character sets. Because of copying/pasting text (from various origins) into a form to build a newsletter, occasionally the newsletter comes out with a strange symbol in place of an m-dash, apostrophe, etc. I know this can be solved on a website by going to a UTF-8 charset, but are there any problems with using UTF-8 in email? All of the examples of multipart email solutions I have seen use a charset of 'us-ascii' and content-transfer-encoding of 7bit...is there any reason to not use UTF-8? Best regards, David ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CFMAIL and us-ascii/utf-8 charsets
David Grabbe wrote: I've finally got a multipart email working with CFMAIL under CFMX -- with many thanks to Bob Everland and his CF_EmailEveryone tag. However, I've run into a slight problem with character sets. Because of copying/pasting text (from various origins) into a form to build a newsletter, occasionally the newsletter comes out with a strange symbol in place of an m-dash, apostrophe, etc. I know this can be solved on a website by going to a UTF-8 charset, but are there any problems with using UTF-8 in email? All of the examples of multipart email solutions I have seen use a charset of 'us-ascii' and content-transfer-encoding of 7bit...is there any reason to not use UTF-8? This message *is* UTF-8. As are all my messages to this list. Jochem ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
