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From: Tony Johansson on 3 Jun 2010 07:02
Hi!

Some background information to my question. If you've ever received an
e-mail message or seen a Web page that seemed to have box character or
question marks where letters should appear, you have witnesses an encoding
problem.

Assume the following exist in a e-mail.
Content-Type: text/plain: charset=xyx

Will I get box characters or ? if the specified charset doesn't exist in
windows ?
So I mean will windows check if the specified charaset exist and if so use
this code page with the corresponding code points.

//Tony





From: Arne Vajhøj on 3 Jun 2010 18:34
On 03-06-2010 07:02, Tony Johansson wrote:
> Some background information to my question. If you've ever received an
> e-mail message or seen a Web page that seemed to have box character or
> question marks where letters should appear, you have witnesses an encoding
> problem.

Note that it is not all encoding problems that manifests themselves
that way. It is only encoding problems where a given byte is not valid
in the specified encoding.

> Assume the following exist in a e-mail.
> Content-Type: text/plain: charset=xyx
>
> Will I get box characters or ? if the specified charset doesn't exist in
> windows ?

Whether that is app specific or OS (lib) specific may depend
on the app.

Anyway - why not try it on your own PC?

Arne
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