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mddean17mddean17 

User Email Encoding Questions

Hi,
 
Does anyone have specific info on the User email encoding values, or is there a doc that elaborates on these? Looking for answers to:
 
-   What's the difference between the Japanese and Chinese variations, i.e. Traditional vs. Simplified Chinese, Japanese EUC vs. Japanese JIS?
 
-   Is the encoding setting relevant only for HTML emails or also text?
 
-   When is it best to use utf-8? And if the desired language is not present is it best to default to utf-8?
 
-   Do these settings pertain to the character set only or are there are other differentiators like in the structure of the email envelope, etc?
 
 
Thanks, any help is appreciated.
Rasmus MenckeRasmus Mencke
UTF8 support multi-byte characters, and supports all the difference character set. The reason for using specific local charsets would be that the email clients does not support UTF8, I have seen that happen in the past with some email clients, and some of these has been used in Asian.

There are a difference between the different character sets/

Chinese:
GB2312 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB2312)
BIG5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big5)

Most Japanese emails are sent using JIS - most webpages are Shift-JIS.

The encoding is for both for the text and html part, make sure to set the header encoding to 8bit, as the default is 7bit.

The headers names are plain/text in the ascii character set, but the values can be in UTF8 like for example subject line.

The envelope to: and from: only uses ASCII characters.

Hope this helps?