Posted by Manuel Lemos on 08/23/07 18:18

Hello,

on 08/23/2007 04:44 AM amygdala said the following:
>>>> The only thing really wrong is that you should not send 8 bit encoded
>>>> messages as many mail gateways do not supported. Instead of 8 bit you
>>>> should use quoted-printable encoding.
>>> Alright, I didn't know this. This makes sense. Cause like I said, even
>>> without me encoding it as utf-8, the problem randomly occured. Perhaps
>>> the
>>> apparent random appearance of strange characters and/or missing of
>>> diactrical characters could be explained due to the fact that subsequent
>>> mail messages can get send through different mail gateways to their
>>> end-destination, just like a tcp packets? Or is that not correct? Not
>>> very
>>> imporant for me to get answered, but it would help me get a better
>>> understanding of things. ;-)
>> No, the diacritical characters appear when transform your text to UTF-8
>> . UTF-8 still uses 8 bits per character. If you read the mail message
>> that is sent you see those characters because whatever console or text
>> display program you are using does not decode UTF-8 and show the correct
>> characters.
>
> But what could be causing my characters to randomly be transformed to UTF-8?
> Do you have any idea? I don't do it anywhere in my application (except for
> the test I stated in my first mail)? I've changed everything back to how it
> was though, and now it still shows
>
> test ëèï
>
> and sometimes
>
> test ëèï
>
> without me changing anything in the programs code? That is weird, isn't it?

If you use utf8_encode, you transform iso-8859-1 text in utf-8.

Since you only have text in one encoding that only uses 8 bit, utf-8 is
not useful for you.


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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