[MlMt] Writing in a format that is not utf 8

Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org
Thu Feb 9 09:23:59 UTC 2012


On 9 Feb 2012, at 9:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 Feb 2012, at 8:19, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
>> I interact with a computer program by email (a Diplomacy judge to be 
>> precise) that mangles text with accents. It seems it's because I send 
>> the messages as utf 8 but it interprets and forwards them as 
>> ISO-8859-1. Is there a way to tell MailMate to send a particular 
>> message in a different encoding?
>
> No. I was also hoping such problems were an issue of the past. At 
> least, you are the first to ask about this. Any chance that this 
> (serious) bug could be fixed in the receiving computer program?

I'm afraid not, it's an old and unmaintained program.

Don't worry about this, I can switch to Mail.app to send these messages 
(they will be generated by a keyboard maestro macro anyway).

Thanks,

Alan


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