From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:01:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ada9vjrl.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8ypulyqs.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de>
Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
> If you are satisfied with a _fair_ chance to be flawlessly readable
> at the other end, you may use UTF-8.
But the purpose of email is to _communicate_. Why lower you chance of
cummunicating if there is no compelling technical reason to do so?
> How long it will take for Unicode to become as widespread in western
> Europe as Latin-1 is now -- I don't know. But so far it has spread
> very rapidly.
1. Application support isn't that great. Emacs, (La)TeX and Texinfo
don't support Unicode fully (those are some of the most important
applications as far as I'm concerned).
2. Unicode support itself doesn't really buy me a lot if most people
don't have fairly complete Unicode fonts (which they don't).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-16 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-14 15:48 Xavier Maillard
2003-08-14 22:39 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-08-15 18:22 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-08-14 23:01 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-15 13:50 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-15 16:48 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-15 18:10 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 0:23 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-16 9:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 13:01 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-08-16 15:36 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 17:14 ` Reiner Steib
2003-08-16 19:29 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-19 14:54 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-20 15:24 ` Reiner Steib
2003-08-21 0:20 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-16 17:23 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-16 19:18 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 22:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-17 12:30 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-08-17 16:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-18 2:20 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-18 15:58 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-08-18 2:16 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-18 2:09 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-28 13:38 ` Jens Müller
2003-08-28 13:35 ` Jens Müller
2003-08-17 0:57 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-17 17:24 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-17 18:21 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-15 18:24 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-08-16 0:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-14 23:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-15 17:00 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 7:43 ` Ivan Boldyrev
2003-08-17 17:27 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-18 6:01 ` Steinar Bang
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