On 05/10/2010 11:54 PM, g wrote: > > i was filtering out *base 64* posters, but there are several of them > who do appear to be rather versed in their knowledge. tho i do wish > they would show more of their knowledge by posting *text/plain*. > > A few things.... I don't think you meant "posting in text/plain" since that doesn't have any direct influence on the type of Content-Transfer-Encoding used. An example of this would be sending an email containing Chinese characters from a gmail account. The message will be "text/plain". But the type of CTE used will depend on the % of Chinese characters and probably other factors. But, it will be either base64 or quoted-printable. Also, many end users won't have control over the CTE being used. The gmail example fits that. I also have seen servers here in Asia set up to always send in base64. For example, one company that I do business with here in Taiwan uses very old servers and software for their email which dates to when many (even older) MTAs were not 8-bit clean. So, to ensure there emails could be read at the other end...everything is base64 encoded even if the entire message is in ASCII. -- Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack. 葛斯克 愛德 華 / 台北市八德路四段
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