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Martin
waldo kitty wrote 5 lines
it actually decoded pretty much on google translate... it didn't make much sense but ;) gotta wonder what happened there...

Well the netiquette (afaik) does not say if I should use ansi, utf8, utf16 ... That is because when it was written (nearly 20 years ago) those things weren't there (or no one bothered).

So I tried utf16 big Endian. Only my mailer did set the encoding, yet made the content utf18. Arghhh

It is just there are many good thinks in the netiquette, but equally there are things in there which in my opinion do no longer make sense today: For example html mail. Back then the majority of readers could not deal with it, and it did cost bandwidth. Today only a very small minority of readers has an issue, and bandwidth is not an issue either (besides utf32 encoded latin text quickly takes more space than a few html tags).

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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Martin wrote
So I tried utf16 big Endian. Only my mailer did set the encoding, yet made the content utf18. Arghhh

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0 and the message was pretty garbled (see attached screenshot). I couldn't even do a "view message source" to see the headers to figure out the encoding or anything.

I guess somewhere something failed miserably.

Graeme.

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