Benjamin Sher kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 3. heinäkuuta 2005 12:59): > What, in plain English, is all of this 8-bit character stuff > about? 8-bit characters are used to write in other languages than plain English :-) They are the characters that are missing from the US-ASCII 7-bit character set. "quoted printable MIME encoding" is a way to encode 8-bit characters into US-ASCII character set so that software stuck in the 1970's passes it through undamaged. > A follow-up question: What is "8-bit characters" in opposition to? To > Unicode? If so, in what sense? UTF-8 encoded Unicode contains 8-bit characters, so you get two layers of encoding: Unicode -> UTF-8 and UTF-8 -> MIME quoted-printable. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
