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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default setting of `mm-coding-system-priorities'
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk5yjxd3f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9tzxnm75o.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 22\:40\:19 +0100")

> I'm not sure if it is obvious that everybody using a UTF-8 locale
> prefers Latin-1 for outgoing mail and news.

I believe that in general, if a message *can* be encoded in an 8bit
encoding, it's likely that it will be readable by a larger audience than if
it is encoded in utf-8.

But it's probably too late to change it for Emacs-22.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <86sldbdc7e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-02-15 21:40 ` Reiner Steib
2007-02-15 22:38   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-02-16 20:04     ` Reiner Steib

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