On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Shlomi Tal wrote:
> I've built a UTF-8 sig for my outgoing messages:
>
> |----------------------|
> | a BOY ♂ ... |
> | a GIRL ♀ ... |
> | they MEET ♂♀ ... |
> | HERE WE GO! |
> | ♂♥♀ |
> |----------------------|
>
> with Unicode symbols from the U+26xx block. However, it doesn't show up at
> all: neither in Compose, nor when I send a message to myself, nor when I
> send a message to someone else.
♂ (U+2641), ♀(U+2640), and ♥(U+2665) in your message arrived
intact at my mailbox. (I'm reading your message with Pine running under
xterm under ko_KR.UTF-8 locale. This message is being composed with Vim
6.x.) The reason your recipient or yourself couldn't see them is that
probably your message doesn't have MIME charset parameter specified in
Content-Type field. By manually setting encoding (in your browser or
mail client), you should be able to see them.
Your message has merely
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
It should have
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Hotmail and most other webmail services used to have a lot of things to
be desired in terms of I18N and MIME standard compliance. However,
recently they got much better and I'm almost sure there's a way to
specify that you want to encode your outgoing emails in Unicode(UTF-8).
Jungshik Shin
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