Re: [OT-LIST] Unsupported character sets

Be advised the only thing I do to get the umlaut in the email is cut and
post
that particular letter into my email, other than that it's no diffeernt
than
any other eamil. It's not like I'm doing HTML.

Los

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Izenberg, Noam wrote:
>
> > Roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of the FT list digests I receive arrive as
> > attachments rather than email texts because the "message uses a
> > character set that is not supported by the Internet Service."
>
> i've never seen that particular error, but i do often get messages
with
> the text in an attachment as well as in the body. a while ago, i had
> trouble where a message was broken up on the degree character, which
isn't
> in the ascii character set and so required loopy processing.
>
> ah, the joys of open systems!
>
> Tom