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 Péter <[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 "é". But should I sent it like FROM: "Szabolcs Péter <[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 -- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw) ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
