[thelist] problem with accented characters in email

Brian Cummiskey Brian at hondaswap.com
Wed Dec 8 10:05:03 CST 2004


Sarah Sweeney wrote:
>> However, if after all this, you actually WANT the accented characters 
>> to be passed in, i don't know what to tell you.  If it were me, I'd 
>> strip them out if your company is an English-speaking company that 
>> sells English products.  But that's a whole other issue that the 
>> business side of things should conclude on- not the programmers.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I really need to pass the accented characters through - 
> the client is an international organization, so English-only is not an 
> option.
> 

Then, I would say to go with the other suggestion given, and force UTF-8 
on it.


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