Re: Changing charset of mail to be sent
0n Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:31:47AM -0400, Remi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a way to change manually the charset of mail to be sent.
>
>I write in English, French, and Japanese. So selecting the proper
>charset can often be a pain in the behind.
>
>If the e-mail I write is just in English, I guess any encoding can be
>fine. Though, when writing in French, I need to select iso-8859-1 or
>utf-8. In Japanese, iso-2022-jp, euc-jp, or utf-8. When I write both in
>French and Japanese, I must use utf-8, or else French accents on letters
>gets confused for Japanese characters.
>
>Personally, I'd love to use utf-8 all the time. But for some reason,
>many free Web mail services don't work well with utf-8. (For example,
>Hotmail and Yahoo. At least the Japanese version of those services.)
>
>I tried setting $send_charset, but often it doesn't give me the charset
>I want. I checked the manual and I don't find any way to change the
>charset manually.
>
>So, I'm wondering, does anyone know how to change the charset of an
>outgoing e-mail manually?
Okay, braving up here. I am a newbie when it comes to char sets.
What is meant by UTF-8 ?
-aW