Re: Changing charset of mail to be sent

["Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    0n Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:01:26PM +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote: 

    >Hi,
    >
    >* Wilkinson, Alex [06-06-02 00:06:50 +0930] wrote:
    >
    >>Okay, braving up here. I am a newbie when it comes to char sets.
    >>What is meant by UTF-8 ?
    >
    >"utf-8" is an encoding scheme for Unicode and Unicode is something like 
    >a huge table which stores all possible types of characters.
    >
    >With Unicode and Utf-8 (there're other encoding schemes, too), you can 
    >nearly mix up all types of characters in just one mail/text 
    >file/website/... like:
    >
    >  ??² + ??² = ??² ??? ??????¹x???dx ??? ???x/???y ???

Is there a definitive document that explains character sets ?

 -aW