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Harlan Messinger
I use Outlook XP for SMTP/POP mail. I received an e-mail that was sent
to a group of people, and responded to it. The mail server of one of
my recipients rejected the e-mail on the grounds that it doesn't
accept the character encoding that was used, which was 8859-7 (Greek).
The e-mail to which I replied shows that it was encoded in US-ASCII.
I tried an experiment myself, in which I sent an e-mail to myself
(which was revealed to have been sent using US-ASCII), and then
replied to it. The reply was still in US-ASCII. Then I went back to
the e-mail I had originally received and forwarded it to myself--and
it came in as 8859-7.
Under the International Options on the Mail Formatting tab in Tools |
Options, I have "auto-select encoding for outgoing messages" checked,
and the "preferred encoding" is set to be Western European (ISO)--in
other words, 8859-1.
Why is it that I have my default set to 8859-1, but my own new e-mail
goes out as US-ASCII *and* a reply to an e-mail that came in from
someone else got switched to 8859-7 while a reply to an e-mail that
came in from me wasn't didn't have its encoding switched? Oh, and I
checked Internet Explorer: it's set to choose the encoding
automatically.
to a group of people, and responded to it. The mail server of one of
my recipients rejected the e-mail on the grounds that it doesn't
accept the character encoding that was used, which was 8859-7 (Greek).
The e-mail to which I replied shows that it was encoded in US-ASCII.
I tried an experiment myself, in which I sent an e-mail to myself
(which was revealed to have been sent using US-ASCII), and then
replied to it. The reply was still in US-ASCII. Then I went back to
the e-mail I had originally received and forwarded it to myself--and
it came in as 8859-7.
Under the International Options on the Mail Formatting tab in Tools |
Options, I have "auto-select encoding for outgoing messages" checked,
and the "preferred encoding" is set to be Western European (ISO)--in
other words, 8859-1.
Why is it that I have my default set to 8859-1, but my own new e-mail
goes out as US-ASCII *and* a reply to an e-mail that came in from
someone else got switched to 8859-7 while a reply to an e-mail that
came in from me wasn't didn't have its encoding switched? Oh, and I
checked Internet Explorer: it's set to choose the encoding
automatically.