Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 14:38:50 EDT


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> In the Basics tab of the User Preferences dialog (I'm using R5.0.5), under
> "Additional Options" I've got "Enable Unicode display" enabled; under the
> Main and News tab, in the Multilingual Internet Mail drop down, select "Use
> Unicode (UTF-8)". Just as a test, here's a bit of Thai: กลัปมาอยู่แล้ว

  Your mail has the following header, which indicates that
it's in 'Windows-874' encoding. I'm not sure whether that encoding name
is registered with IANA for use in MIME.

> X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-874
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^
  Anyway, to get your message properly recognized as in UTF-8
by other MIME-compliant mail programs (MS OE and Netscape 6.x/Mozilla,
Pine, Mutt, etc), you have to find a way to make Lotus Notes
add the correct MIME header for UTF-8 message as shown below:

  Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: (8bit|base64|quoted-printable)

  I'm not sure if that's possible in Lotus Notes, though. MS OE and
Netscape 6.x/Mozilla, Mutt and Pine work well with UTF-8 messages (for
the latter two, obviously you need to have a terminal to support UTF-8)

  Jungshik Shin



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