[tlug] Japanese to craigslist?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

Anyone had trouble with Japanese when replying to craigslist anonymizing
email addresses?

I've had two people come back to say they are getting mojibake. My mail
had these headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

In one of them I was replying to their Japanese email, and I could read
their Japanese fine. I see they use these headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Natsukashii...

Surely Craigslist haven't gone to the trouble of setting up a mail
forwarding service that only works in the 20th century, and cannot cope
with UTF-8?

Could it be coincidence, and these two people are perhaps both using old
handsets that cannot deal with UTF-8?

Darren


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