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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 21:22
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