Hi Frank,

As a Unicode nut and lurker on this list, I couldn't resist jumping
in... Unicode doesn't require HTML to render. Even a "plain" Unicode
text email should render correctly if all the software in the pipeline
supports Unicode (or more specifically, probably, UTF-8).

Let's see if the following paragraph shows up correctly:

2 Evaṃ me sutaṃ— ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā ukkaṭṭhāyaṃ viharati
subhagavane sālarājamūle. Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi—
“bhikkhavo”ti. “Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ. Bhagavā
etadavoca— “sabbadhammamūlapariyāyaṃ vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi. Taṃ
suṇātha, sādhukaṃ manasi karotha, bhāsissāmī”ti. “Evaṃ, bhante”ti kho
te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ. Bhagavā etadavoca—

Metta,
Pat