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At 01:07 PM 2000/03/08 -0500, Hans van der Genugten <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: janet marie paterson <[log in to unmask]> >Aan: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >Datum: woensdag 8 maart 2000 18:28 >Onderwerp: Re: Help, pleasee / public reply / "ASCII only, please!" e-mail >software settings >>>>>> >the e-mail message 'content type' setting should be this: >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >and not this: >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ><<<<<< > >There is NO difference between these two content-types. >They are BOTH in ASCII = text/plain, regardless whatever the charset setting >is. >Hans. hi hans my experience is that when copying and pasting text from some word processing programs [not all] into some e-mail software programs [not all] the character set "iso-8859-1" is responsible for those pesky =20 codes at the end of each line as well as some other irregularities in formatting in other words, in terms of being "identical" to "us-ascii", "iso-8859-1" gets close, but no cigar! the "us-ascii" character set is the only one guaranteed to be consistent across all platforms and in all software applications which is the whole point of e-mail and the internet, no? janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0