Re: Email Format (Umlaut)
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2004
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 56844
interpreted = N
texte = Martin wrote: > but the source of the webcat email isn't =F6,=E4 or =FC > it is öäü - the same as in the Email App. My point is that the way your e-mail client is handling it is to not rely on the native extended ASCII characters but rather to embed the quoted-printable form, so that the operating system doesn't get involved in the operation. The issue is that everything above ASCII 127 is dependent on exactly what software decides to "translate" the characters. It appears that your system is rendering the umlaut characters as Unicode (UTF-8) and the wrong ones at that. You put "charset=ISO-8859-1" into the headers, but that is really a hint for the _client_ how to interpret the characters, not for the _server_ how to encode them. If you make your e-mails quoted-printed and do the translation yourself to characters in the ISO-8859-1 character set, it should display properly under all circumstances. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Martin wrote: > but the source of the webcat email isn't =F6,=E4 or =FC > it is öäü - the same as in the Email App. My point is that the way your e-mail client is handling it is to not rely on the native extended ASCII characters but rather to embed the quoted-printable form, so that the operating system doesn't get involved in the operation. The issue is that everything above ASCII 127 is dependent on exactly what software decides to "translate" the characters. It appears that your system is rendering the umlaut characters as Unicode (UTF-8) and the wrong ones at that. You put "charset=ISO-8859-1" into the headers, but that is really a hint for the _client_ how to interpret the characters, not for the _server_ how to encode them. If you make your e-mails quoted-printed and do the translation yourself to characters in the ISO-8859-1 character set, it should display properly under all circumstances. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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