Hello Cyrille,
You wrote on 2004.05.30., 19:02:
In the account properties (mail management tag) is an option to
define how 8-bit characters are to be treated: Default value is
without changes.
I do not understand for what reason should I choose the option
without changes since SMTP supports only 7-bit ASCII characters
and (at least in theory and according to Internet standards) they
become unreadable once they are sent.
These days, most mail servers can cope with 8-bit characters.
However, it's still better to encode the headers instead of 8-bit
sending, to avoid the ambiguity of the high ascii characters.
For example, see my From name: Szabolcs Pter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's encoded like From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Szabolcs_P=E9ter?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then you could tell unambigously that =E9 in iso-8859-2 means .
But should I sent it like FROM: Szabolcs Pter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, it would be up to the recipient's mail user agent to interpret the
accented character, and it would probably display it in some local
code page - which will not be necessarily intelligible :)
Cheers, SyP
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