Re: I'm totally baffled.

[David Given <dg@...>]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 13:47, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
[...]
> In the header of my message:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> So it should work in all good mail agents...

Off topic, I know, but provided your mailer fills out the Content-Type field 
correctly, any character set will work (provided the recipient's MUA supports 
it).

> Should this be missing, or should I have been using Windows ISO chars in
> the dreaded 128-159 range – like € or ‘cœur’… – it would have been more
> problematic...

Well, they work for me, because your mailer is marking the character set as 
windows-1252.

These days, provided your mailer is following the rules, you basically don't 
have to worry about this stuff.

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