Re: charset=utf8 and Mac mailers

From: Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@garshol.priv.no)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 11:36:00 EST

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    * Terje Bless
    |
    | If it is not registered with IANA, it is not a valid value for the
    | «charset» parameter to the MIME «Content-Type» header field.

    True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in
    order to make bad encoding declarations like "utf8" work properly. Web
    browsers are one example of this. 

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Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
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