Re: [Phys-l] unicode Byte Order Mark

[Herbert Schulz <herbs@wideopenwest.com>]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 6:19 PM, John Denker wrote:

> On 02/06/2011 05:02 PM, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
> > I just un-checked "allow 8 bit . . ."
> > Did that help?
>
> It didn't improve anything.
>
>
> Here it the relevant part of the last message, as it appears on
> the wire:
>
> > Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8; reply-type=original
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > =EF=BB=BF
> >
> > I just un-checked "allow 8 bit . . ."
> > Did that help?
>
> It's a Byte Order Mark
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
>
> Any mail-reader designed since the Pleistocene should know what
> to do with it.
>
> My suggestion:  Continue sending things as they are now.
> Ignore complaints from mailers that can't cope with unicode.

Howdy,

Not all Unicode uses BOM.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)