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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:11:49AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
| On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
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| > I have two questions I'd need answering.
| >
| > 1 What encoding is the match string using ?
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| Encoding is the nightmare. The easy thing is to turn the Q (quoted
| printable) or B (base64) encoding back into individual "binary".
| Subsequently converting that to some other encoding begs the question:
| what do we convert to?
UTF-8. Naturally :-). I think it is the most sensible because it can
encode all of the strings that will be encountered, and choosing it
may help systems to standardize on it.
| I suspect that what happens in most places is that the local
| encoding is used,
Probably.
| though maybe UTF-8 is getting more wide use these days.
Hopefully :-).
-D
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