[sclug] Question about HTML format e-mails

[Bob Franklin]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Alex Butcher wrote:

> Historically, links couldn't be guaranteed to be 7-bit clean (Compuserve 
> was notable in this for a long time) - hence things like uuencode, MIME 
> Base64 and so on.

I remember someone did work out what it was, exactly - something like 
6.92-bit.  :)


> I'm not sure that Latin character sets in Unicode allow for composition 
> of characters (unlike with Arabic and others), which is what would be 
> required to do this cleanly in plain-text email.

I often send emails with Japanese in - using UTF-8 encoding, the Roman 
characters appear as plain ASCII.

   - Bob


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