Re: TECH: Testing again, no new on-topic content (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:24:41PM -0600, Herman Miller wrote:
> It's also possible the A0 bytes are getting
> corrupted somewhere along the way before the message gets to the mail
> reader.
That definitely seems to be what is happening.  And the
Content-Transfer-Encoding doesn't matter; however you encode it, some
gateway along the way is decoding it and replacing A0 bytes with 20
bytes.  It's all very annoying.

If you can convince your mail program to send messages in UTF-7,
that seems to work fine, but most mail programs will not have that
capability.

[I use mutt, which lets me type in an arbitrary string
as the character set (rather than making me pick from a list), and
if that string is something recognized by the iconv library  - which
handles 933 different character sets in my installation - it will
happily convert to the named character set when it sends the message.
However, mutt is an old-fashioned terminal-based mail client for UNIX
platforms, no GUI, so most people wouldn't be interested in running it
as their everyday mailer.]

-Mark