In message <9810160027.AA10060@unicode.org>
Murray Sargent <murrays@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Donald's UTF-8 file should begin with a UTF-8 BOM in order to identify it
> as a UTF-8 encoded file. The starting bytes should be 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF.
> These bytes are discarded when reading the file in and added when writing
> the file out.
>
Don't be silly. It might be helpful to do so for some applications that
attempt to autodetect encodings, but it's not necessary.
What Donald did do wrong (or rather his software/OS did) was to label the
attachment as:
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; name=MES
That totally scuppers display of the attachment in a charset-aware mail
reader.
-- Kevin Bracey, Senior Software Engineer Acorn Computers Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1223 725228 Acorn House, 645 Newmarket Road Fax: +44 (0) 1223 725328 Cambridge, CB5 8PB, United Kingdom WWW: http://www.acorn.co.uk/
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