Sending activation mail not in UTF-8?

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Sending activation mail not in UTF-8?

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I would like to know, if it is possible, to change the sending of emails in the current beta4 from UTF-8 to Iso-8859-1, because some exotic mail programms can't read them... :roll:
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Re: Sending activation mail not in UTF-8?

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To illustrate this, the subject of the incoming mail is displayed in some programms (e.g. Outlook) like this:
:=?UTF-8?B?V2lsbGtvbW1lbiBhdWYg4oCeSS1DYWZmIEZvcnVt4oCcIOKAlCBodHRwOi8vd3d3?= =?UTF-8?B?LmktY2FmZi5kZS9mb3J1bQ==?=

And e.g. the German "für" is displayed like "für". :?:

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Re: Sending activation mail not in UTF-8?

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No offense, I understand your situation since I have the same problem with japanese. But "outlook" is the problem, not phpbb ;)

I started to recommend a real MUA to users, such as thunderbird MUA or gmail for webmail.

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nwbasser wrote: "outlook" is the problem, not phpbb ;)


Mmmm...let's hope the devs don't have that attitude. Otherwise the message would be (Don't use phpBB if any of your users are likely to use Outlook)
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Unfortunately, regardless of how buggy a particular bit of software is, as long as enough people use it, you will have to cater for it. Just yesterday I was cursing Internet Explorer for the gazillionth time because I had to create yet another workaround because it wasn't adhering to standards. Do I tell people to use Firefox? I could, but if I kept that up, they just wouldn't come back to my site.

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mmm... imho the best solution would be to be able to choose wheter to send email in UTF-8 or in iso encoding. Supposing that people who need UTF-8 to read their emails would have a UTF-8 compliant mail client, the problem would be solved easily.
I don't know if this option is already present, as my motherboard broke down last week and I have to set up my testing environment
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Outlook (Office Suite and Express) support Unicode just fine (UTF-7 & UTF-8) since at least the version bundled with Office 97 and IE4.
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I would hazard a guess the encoding issue of receiving email be caused from PEBCAK and that the encoding of the file got mangled during the uploading process.
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