At 12:00 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Francoise Becker wrote: >On 10 Mar 00, at 10:22, G ran Larsson wrote: > >> We just started to use a Bottom Banner on one of our lists. The problem >> is that it seems to upset the characters i the body text. The swedish >> characters å, ä and ö doesn't show up properly. Instead the text is >> full of f=F6 and such. This is true to postings to Hotmail, GroupWise, >> LotusNotes and perhaps some other e-mail applications. > >This is due to the fact that there isn't only one way to encode >special characters. Some email applications use quoted-printable, >others use 8-bit. That should not be the reason. The mail protocols allow the encoding to be specified via a Content-Transfer-Encoding header, which allows conversion as needed (to QP for transfer through a 7-bit gateway, or to 8bit for display, etc.). If no such header is present, it means 7bit, and there shouldn't be any high-bit characters at all. >If you assume quoted-printable, then it will look >like garbage on mail using 8-bit codes. If you assume 8-bit codes, >it will look like garbage on mail using quoted-printable. Not if properly labeled, and properly interpreted at the client side. I don't know, however, whether LISTSERV attempts to match up the bottom banner encoding with any CTE header it may put on the mail. (IMHO, most lists should probably restrict themselves to 7-bit since otherwise a Charset is needed in the headers to interpret the 8-bit characters anyway.) Cheers, Stan