Re: The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

On 21 Oct 2003 at 21:25, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Paul Bennett :
>
>
> >Quick experiment. Can Christophe send something with a variety of
> >accents, to which Constentin replies, just to satisfy my curiosity?
>
> Here :)) :
>
> áàâäéÈÇ   ùúÛ  Ãã
>
> That should give you a good idea already.
>
> Note that my mails should be sent in MIME only (or so I set Eudora to do)
> and that I usually have no problem with receiving mails containing accents
> (I used to have problems sometimes, but it mostly disappeared since I
> upgraded Eudora). I still the occasional mail in UTF-7 which shows up
> wrongly though.
UTF-7 is a weirdness of its own ilk. AFAIK, it's no longer officially
condoned, ever since the proliferation of UTF-8 encoding within MIME.
IME, only Microsoft products have widely supported it.






Paul

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