Re: [tlug] Selective mojibake email

["Glenn Evanish" <glenn@example.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Selective mojibake email


> "Glenn Evanish" <glenn@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > Both say charset=ISO-8859-1 but they're displayed differently,
> > even though both browsers are set to Shift-JIS.
> 
> If both message say charset=ISO-8859-1 then both are asking to
> be displayed as mojibake.
> 
> If both browsers are set to Shift-JIS then both users have set their
> preferences.  Are these general preferences to be overridden by
> an individual e-mail's statement, or are these specific preferences
> to override a specific e-mail's statement?
> 
> If you don't know which setting takes priority, probably no one else
> knows either.
> 
>