I currently generate emails "on the fly" and was wondering whether I should be converting the body output to UTF-8 rather than original ASCII?
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A:
If the content of the emails is ASCII, there is no reason to convert to UTF-8.
Convert to UTF-8 if you need to support multiple languages in your email.
Oded
2010-03-01 15:47:39
Is that the only reason that I should convert the text?
Ardman
2010-03-01 15:51:28
@Ardman Yes, if you know you'll never need anything beyond ASCII, you can stick to ASCII. It won't make a difference to people reading your mail. In fact, I daresay support for ASCII in the wild far exceeds support for UTF-8, sadly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#Features
bzlm
2010-03-01 15:52:26