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Re: More on non-ascii chars in headers



On 25-09-2007, at 21h 35'01", Kyle Wheeler wrote about "Re: More on non-ascii 
chars in headers"
> On Tuesday, September 25 at 11:16 PM, quoth Ionel Mugurel Ciobica:
> >> Eyolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8strem?=
> >
> >That is not Unicode. Unicode would be this:
> >
> >| Eyolf =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=98strem?=
> >
> >This is the (safe) way to transfer non-ASCII information over the net.
> 
> They're *both* safe ways to transfer non-ASCII information over the 
> net. In fact, the iso-8859-1 encoding is probably safer, as more 
> software supports latin-1 encoding than supports utf-8 encoding.
> 

Yes, I meant the (Q)mime way is the way to transfer non-ASCII...
iso-8859-1 is obsolete. iso-8859-15 is a replacement but more and more
people use UTF-8. Although some people still use bare ascii...


Ionel