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Re: [ProgSoc] Unicode in email



Nathan de Vries wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 14:23 +1000, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
>> I don't hate MIME, but on the other hand MIME and I aren't about to
>> get married either.
> 
> Have I missed something about MIME which makes it evil?

You might have. I don't mind MIME at all. From your very helpful
comments it looks like my best option (in fact, my only real option) is
to use MIME, so I'll get on that.

> Messages which don't use MIME are presumed to be plain text in the
> US-ASCII character set.

Right, OK.

> For message headers (like "Subject", "To", "From" etc.), encode the
> non-ASCII values using Base64 and wrap them with "=?UTF-8?B?" and
> "?=" (minus the quotes.
> 
> For the body you've got three options:
> 
> 1. base64 encode the whole lot
> 2. Use the same technique as the message headers for any non-ASCII
> characters
> 3. Just use the raw 8-bit text
> I tend to lean towards option 3, however your mileage may vary.

Thanks very much for these. I'll give Option 3 a try.

> Problems
> tend not to occur at the MTA level, but rather when the messages are
> being parsed by poorly written scripts.

What's MUA support like for all this? Good, hopefully? :)

- N

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