Can you write special characters in plain text?
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special characters, like an "o" with an umlaut over it, or strikethrough
characters? I don't fully understand how SMTP works, but ... I remember
seeing email signatures in plain text that had Spanish vowels (vowels with
accent marks over them). I use elm on Unix and Outlook Express 6 on WinXP.
TIA for any explanations.
-John
john...@fastELEPHANTmail.fm
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Sven Guckes
> I send my email in plain text. Is it possible to
> compose an email with special characters, like an "o"
> with an umlaut over it, or strikethrough characters?
yes: ö ø
> I don't fully understand how SMTP works, but...
> I remember seeing email signatures in plain text that
> had Spanish vowels (vowels with accent marks over them).
> I use elm on Unix and Outlook Express 6 on WinXP.
this is not an SMTP issue. it's a matter of input and encoding.
as with elm - your enter the text with your $EDITOR
as with IE6 - whatever. just make up your mind about
your question and post to the appropriate group.
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Sven [emailing with mutt, newsreading with slrn]
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Hi, John!
You could use KeyTweak from http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick if you
often have to type exotic characters.
Or you should get AllChars (http://allchars.zwolnet.com). Works like
magic. Here is a description:
AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents
like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™
„ in most Windows programs. AllChars emulates the *nix Compose key on
Windows. AllChars v3.5 upwards supports macros: type a (short) name and
AllChars will replace it with a (long) text. AllChars is very easy and
intuitive in usage and it is possible to adapt it to your wishes.
AllChars is FREEWARE. AllChars works with Windows 3.11 or Windows 95,
98, ME, NT 4.0 and 2000.
--
Cheers,
Robert
Jem Berkes
> special characters, like an "o" with an umlaut over it, or
> strikethrough characters? I don't fully understand how SMTP works,
> but ... I remember seeing email signatures in plain text that had
> Spanish vowels (vowels with accent marks over them). I use elm on Unix
> and Outlook Express 6 on WinXP.
Non-ASCII characters in email are definitely supported. Your alternatives
are: you could write these 8-bit characters directly into the plaintext.
However, in this case the mail gateways may choose to drop the characters
because they aren't 7-bit.
The proper way to send non-ASCII in emails is to use MIME. This allows for
"quoted printable" encoding, which will represent an umlaut with ö or
a hexidecimal code for the 8-bit value.
From your perspective the details shouldn't matter, since your email client
should encode characters as required.
--
Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/
those who know me have no need of my name
>> I send my email in plain text. Is it possible to compose an email with
>> special characters, like an "o" with an umlaut over it,
>Non-ASCII characters in email are definitely supported. Your alternatives
>are:
use mime, it should `just work' -- even with outlook express 6.
>you could write these 8-bit characters directly into the plaintext.
>However, in this case the mail gateways may choose to drop the characters
>because they aren't 7-bit.
unless 8bitmime has been negotiated, which i don't believe msoe6 supports.
but msoe6 will encode the message using quoted-printable or base64 so that
the message (which is then 7bit) should transport without flaw.
--
a signature
Kari Hurtta
What elm version you are using?
Depending of version, you mey need take care that elm label text with
correct charset ('charset' == MIME name for character set and encoding
of characters.)
What character set you are using on terminal ?
locale ?
elm -v ?
echo $TERM ?
Some versions of elm do not know how to encode mail with quoted-printable
(if needed). But anyway mail needs correct labeling and all versions
do not know how derive correct charset labeling from other information.
(Also necessary information is not available on all OSes.)
/ Kari H.