illegibilia in digest (re: Pretzel/Bretzel (1843))

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jan 20 21:07:53 UTC 2006


On 1/20/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Gmail, on the other hand, perhaps uses an encoding even for plain
> text that more modern email readers don't accept.

In my experience, as long as the "plain formatting" option is chosen
in Gmail, there are no encoding problems.


--Ben Zimmer

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