CHAT: Sending Special Characters (was: CHAT: digraphs vs. diacritics)

Carlos Thompson wrote:

Kristian Jensen escribis:

>> This is more of a technical mailer question than a conlang
>> question. But how do I make sure my mailer sends the correct
>> graphs when I type these special Danish letters? I can type them
>> and read them fine. But when I try to send a mail in Danish with
>> such letters, the recipient always gets these letters messed up.
>> I have MS Outlook Express.
>
>Well... I don't think is the mailer cliente (MS Outlook Express)
>after I'm using it and have no problems... but the problem could
>arise anywhere.  I used to have that problem when posting from my
>work and, comparing my mail settings (both Netscape Messanger and
>Outlook Express) against my home configuration and observing a
>problem with the 8-bit Latin-1 chars in Pine (throw a telnet
>session) I finally discovered that the problem was in the SMTP
>server: the server your client calls (probably at your ISP) for
>actually sending the mail into Internet.  I don't mean the problem
>will be the same for all us... but the problem could arise
>anywhere.
Well, how did you solve YOUR problem then? Who knows, it might be
the same problem I'm having, so I'm willing to give anything a dose
of good medicine.

-kristian- 8)