[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.7.0-0.1

Steven Penny svnpenn@gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 12:49:00 GMT 2017


On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:30:23, Houder wrote:
> Apologies for the confusion ... the unicode symbol I was pasting in was
> the latin small letter o with diaeresis ...
> For some reason something went wrong when I composed my e-mail.

I had the same problem. You need to add

    Content-Type: text; charset=UTF-8

http://github.com/svnpenn/a/blob/d7afee6/etc/mailing-list.awk#L45

If you leave this off, if defaults to US-ASCII:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#section-4.1.2

which is insane because US-ASCII only supports 128 characters:

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Overview


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