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Re: Does Hotmail support UTF-8 emails properly?



On 2004-01-31 at 12:45 +0000 Richard Jones sent off:
I'm wondering if the emails I'm sending out aren't well-formed, or
whether Hotmail isn't supporting UTF-8 properly.  Does anyone have any
experience in this matter?

it's a hotmail problem. Almost all free webmail providers just support "their local most common" encoding. Europeans mostly just support iso8859-1, where US and British providers often just support ASCII. A very good mail provider, who by default uses UTF-8 for webinterface and sending (and displays other encoding correct) is www.myrealbox.com but this is just a beta test experiment of Novel and they don't accept new testers since Dec 2003. If anyone knows other webmail providers who support UTF-8 and also other legacy encodings, let me know.


Bjoern

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