In article <[log in to unmask]>, dated Wed, 9 Sep 1998 at
09:53:33, [log in to unmask] writes
>I know this is very very very thick of me, but why do you write UKP rather
>than £ when you quote prices?
>
>Grace
>
The UK Pound sign is not part of the ASCII 7-bit character or code set
and therefore cannot be guaranteed to pass through the email network
intact.
The following is from the Turnpike help file :-)
"A MIME message will allow almost all the characters of the Windows
character set to be sent correctly (curly quotes are the notable
exception). Check that your recipient can handle MIME messages. If you
are posting an article to a newsgroup or forwarding a message, you will
get the option to post anyway. Some problem characters can be replace by
text e.g. £ by GBP."
Copyright 1995-98 Turnpike Ltd
In other words, you can use the UK Pound sign when sending a MIME
encoded mail to a recipient who has a MIME compliant email applications
(and which can decode the character set that your mail application
specifies but that shouldn't be a problem in most cases). However, when
posting to mailing lists or newsgroups you should limit yourself to the
7 bit character set as subscribers without MIME compliant email
applications are likely to see an error character (often a solid block)
instead of your UK Pound sign.
As the UK Pound Sign is in the text I am quoting I will by way of
example ignore Turnpike's warning that the sign is "not guaranteed to
pass through all transports" and therefore allow it to send it as a MIME
encoded email. In the headers you will find
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
"Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1"
Chris
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