[imp] problem with attachments in unicode (UTF16)

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Fri Mar 28 23:20:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Philip Steeman wrote:

>>> When you want to mail a .rdp file (remote desktop program), it becomes
>>> corrupt.
>>> Other problem files: .sav (from SPSS program). I think there must be
>>> more examples.
>>
>> NO.  This is an entirely different issue dealing with a broken
>> browser.  This has nothing to do with charsets.
>>
>
> You mean all the browser I tested (IE6 IE7 Firefox konqueror) are
> broken? I don't see a difference between a unicode textfile (utf-16) and
> a configuration-file '.rdp' or a output-file '.sav' all in unicode.
> To test you can download a .rdp file from
> http://users.khbo.be/steeman/unicode.html

Since test.rdp is simply a text file that happens to be encoded in UTF-16, 
I agree that it will suffer from the same problem.

 	Andy


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