Reliable email encoding.

Question

What are the most reliable encodings for sending email? I had some problems recently with .NET's System.Net.Mail default of quoted-printable ('=0D=0A' scattered throughout the message).

So I changed to iso-8859-1 for the body (set via alternative views), and 7bit for transfer (and base64 for embedded resources).

Are there the better choices?

Answer 1

I think the best choice yould be UTF-8. Wiki article