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Re: Strange Characters In Emails



On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:05:54PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> One of the things that I've experienced with some webmail clients 
> before, though, is that they simply ignore the character set that the 
> browser sends with the message content (assuming one is sent---maybe 
> one isn't, making it a bit of a hard problem)

One rarely is sent, unless you use browser-specific hacks. Thank IE
which failed to send it, and CGI scripts written for IE that break when
the charset is mentioned, making it impossible for standards-complying
browsers to do it properly...