Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does a message necessarily need to be MIME when it uses >> non-ascii characters? > > Yes. :) > > Seriously, email without MIME is defined to be US-ASCII 7-bit only in > the standards. Most mailers pass 8-bit these days, but not all, and > without a MIME type you can't trust the eighth bit to mean what you > intended for all your readers.
You are right. When MIME was mentioned, I had in mind multipart messages but this is something else. Thanks for remind this. -- J閞鬽e Marant http://marant.org