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On 27/02/13 22:38, Ray Smith wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2013 10:18 PM, "Gordon Henderson" <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:gordon%2Blug@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Simon Waters wrote: >>> >>>> At the risk of wandering off on a tangent I saw a claim many years > back that most MTAs handle 8bit fine, so all that 7bit escaping is just > so much bloat. Anyone tested this? >>> >>> >>> Wonder what the list processor makes of: >>> >>> Â - Pound >>> Î - Ohm >>> Â - Half >>> Ìâ - Euro >>> >>> 12 Ã 48 = Â >>> >>> although I guess these are unicode characters, but some have their > top-bit set. >> >> >> Well it came back to me OK, but it looks like my local sendmail > converted the incoming message to: >> >> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by > unicorn.drogon.net <http://unicorn.drogon.net> id r1RMDuK0029258 >> >> Hm. Probably thinks its doing me a favour. The stored version (that > alpine stored) has 8-bit characters in it. >> >> Oh well. >> >> Gordon >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >> > > Came to me fine on my tablet. > > Ray > Sent from my Nexus 7 > > > Most email I get is in pure text and with 60% plus with Chinese or Japanese or Korean part subject lines as from far east. I only transmit in pure text and they reply same way. Thunderbird handles this ok. -- le Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq