Re: [Exim] 8bitmime?

Whilst still on-topic mailsystem wise, this is perhaps pushing it a
little for Exim.

On 2002-03-19 at 22:35 +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> > Uhm, ITYM it needs Latin-1, ISO 8859-1. Or perhaps -15, if you prefer
> > having a Euro symbol to an International Currency symbol.
>
> 'Course it does. ISO 8859-1

Uhm, you've just lost me. No Euro sign in ISO 8859-1. It's in 8859-15.
It's in Unicode. But not 8859-1. 0xA4 is the international currency
symbol, an "o" over the middle of an "x", in 8859-1. It's a Euro sign
in 8859-15. If you have a mail containing a Euro sign, go look at the
"charset" attribute in the "Content-Type:" header. If that's
"ISO-8859-1" and you're seeing a Euro, then your set-up is broken.

> I really don't know what you mean.
>
> Think about 80M Germans, 5M Norwegians, 8M Swedes, 5M Danes, 17M
> Hollanders, all HAPPILY using Netscape, Internet Exploder, ALL happily
> using 8 bit encoding.

Yes. For HTTP, which is 8-bit clean, this is fine. If you mean "as a
mail client", I think that you'll find that both those programs quite
happily use "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" and then
things like =E7 for a c-cedilla. Alternatively, they might use base64
encoding.

I suggest a reading of the MIME RFCs before you comment further. And
then perhaps some testing of what actually does happen.

> Jeetje. God knows how many Germans using Exim - not a few. How do you
> think they make ringel-s?

$ perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -le 'print encode_qp "ß"'
=DF
$
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