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Re: WTF does Firefox 58?



On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:19:48 +0100
deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:

> rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I think that is the gentleman's name, but not rendered properly--for
> > example, maybe his name (when he sent the post) contained UTF-8
> > characters (or some other encoding, appropriate to his locale), and
> > your computer (or, at least, your email client), is not able (or
> > set) to properly handle / render those.  
> 
> perhaps you check your client - here it is clearly readable.
> 

Yes, I think either their client or one of the server hops along the
way mangled the content. In theory UTF-8 in headers and body is
standardized (each separately), but that says little about compliance.

For all I know their server predates the standards extension.

Link for those who care: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_Email


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