email header =EF=BB=BF unicode

Lindac1 · Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

I have OE 6/xp all up to date.

In some mail received there is the following..

=EF=BB=BF<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

In others from same person the EF BB Bf is not there.

What is the EF BB BF for? Would it denote something about multi recipients receiving same mail? Maybe in different countrys?

I know it has to do with UTF and bom but what is it for? what does it do?

thanks much,

popowich · Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Hello,

Is there an attachment in the email? The best description I found for this is :

	Quote:
	The three bytes are a so-called Byte Order Mark (BOM), which is used in Unicode files: Byte order mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this case, EF BB BF means the file is a UTF-8 encoded file.

Lindac1 · Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I've read too much at Wikpedia and got totally confused. okay it looks like those bytes are preceeding an attachment.

thanks so much,

email header =EF=BB=BF unicode

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