Re: Way to define character set when doing newspost? LYNX-DEV

[Hynek Med]

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, H E Nelson wrote:

> Headers of posts from Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.28 read:
>       'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit'.

Hm, you have to talk with Klaus about it.. I think it's because Lynx
doesn't insert the charset name for Japanese charsets, and some
sendmail/whatever on the way adds there unknown-8bit..

> I was also puzzled by this header:
>       `Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'.
> I assumed that Lynx had added this by default.  If I were using EUC,
> would I want `Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'?

It's probably because some sendmail/whatever on the way converts 8bit
MIME to base64.. 

Hynek

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