Re: UTF-8@Hotmail

From: Herman Ranes (herman@iet.hist.no)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 06:27:47 EST


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Using Mozilla, I e-mailed an UTF8-message to my own Hotmail address:

Subject: =?UTF-8?B?VW5pa29kZS1wcsO4dmU=?=

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When I received it in Hotmail, it contained:

<meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html" charset="iso-8859-1">

So that every character > U+00ff were rendered as two- or
three-sequences of ISO 8859-1 -characters.

The way it has 'always' been ...

-Herman Ranes

Daniel Yacob skreiv:
> Greetings,
>
> I just noticed that utf-8 encoding is finally working at hotmail.
> UTF-8 works in the subject as well as the body of a letter. Late
> last year I saw that UTF-8 would not display properly at hotmail,
> even when the letter body was HTML with the encoding set right.
>
> Anyone here know for how long this functionality has been available
> and to what extent? I'm not quite brave enough to start using a
> unicode password ;)
>
> thanks,
>
> /Daniel
>
>

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