Re: The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 21:22 |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:08:15PM -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
> 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.
Well, it was supported outside of Microsoft, and most charset
conversion packages continue to support it; but it's hardly
ever used anymore for things like email. The proliferation of
mail transports that are either 8-bit-clean or support automatic
8-to-7-to-8 conversion has obviated content-aware 7-bit encoding
schemes.
-Mark