Olin Lathrop wrote:

> I think its probably ISO-8859-1.  This seems to be what most systems will
> display when given arbitrary 8 bit characters without some means to
> specify the character set 

You're probably wrong about this. While it is the default charset on the
Windows sold in the Americas and western Europe (and probably a few other
places), it's probably not elsewhere. And you may like it or not, but this
may not anymore be the majority.

> (and apparently some even if you do, as we've seen).  

This is not about the system. If you had the decency to at least browse to
the Wikipedia page for which I've posted the link now several times, you'd
see the difference between "system" and "email reader". I bet that your
system is perfectly capable of correctly displaying this page, including
all characters of all ISO 8859 charsets (including the capital omega of
ISO-8859-7). The difference is that your email reader didn't interpret the
Mime headers correctly, while your browser does interpret the Content-Type
meta tag correctly (which is standardized similarly to the corresponding
Mime email header).

Anybody vouching for ASCII-only web here? If not, and vouching for
ASCII-only email, why is that? If there is a difference, where does it come
from?

Gerhard

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