Re: Question on encoding Re: ML4 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:48:05AM -0800, Clint Jackson BAKER wrote:
> Have we established a standard here of indicating encoding in
> our posts?  If not, it would be great. :-)
It's indicated automatically by the mail composition software; it's right
there in the headers.  Something like this:

        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Means Unicode encoded in UTF-8, while this:

        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Means Latin-1 a.k.a. "Western European".   If there is no Content-Type:
header, then this one is implied:

        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Which means that all characters in the message must be in the range 0-127,
and if any are outside that range the message is malformed, which implies
that the mail software on the sending side is broken.

-Mark