Friday, April 25 2003

I received a message from a friend in Norway with a hotmail account. The message was encoded in ISO Latin 1 (or even more probable Windows Latin 1). Nothing strange in that. One disturbing detail though is that no content encoding is provided, not in the mail headers nor in the HTML formatted content of the message. I wonder if there are preference options in the hotmail GUI that control this? But, even if there are such options, isn't it bad behaviour to leave out the encoding? Or is ISO Latin the universal default in every mail client should try first? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it is. Yet another deviously calculated measure in Microsofts plan to conquer the world perhaps?