From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2006 - 00:27:45 CDT
Petr Tomasek <tomasek at etf dot cuni dot cz> wrote:
>> Most of the time, when people say IE doesn't support UTF-7, they mean
>> you can't choose it explicitly as an override, which is true and
>> puzzling. UTF-7 text is not hard to misdetect. (I've intentionally
>> chosen UTF-7 as the encoding for this message; let's see if anyone
>> reports problems reading it.)
>
> How can anyone have problem with it if you are using plain ascii? :-o
Because UTF-7 encodes certain plain-ASCII characters, such as the
greater-than sign > which is used for quoting. It must encode at least
one (the plus sign) as an escape character, and some others are encoded
so they will pass safely through mail.
Mail agents that cannot correctly render my UTF-7-encoded message will
show sequences beginning with +AC or +AD in place of certain ASCII
characters.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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