Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@frank-schmitt.net> writes:

>  Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>  
> >  My question is more a question of compliance with other MUAs.
> >  Would you recommend your users to use utf-8 as a default encoding
> >  system ? AFAIK, I can't see many MUAs aware of it and worst almost
> >  nobody is using utf-8 which was presented as the future. So what is
> >  the problem with utf in general that prevent users in general to
> >  use it defaultly ?
>  
>  Well, it's the chicken-egg-problem. People don't use UTF-8 since
>  quite some MUAs don't support it and some authors of MUAs don't add
>  support since few people use it.

Yep I have the same impression right now.
 
>  Nevertheless I've got the impression that today most MUAs will handle
>  Unicode quite well. I send UTF-8 in both Mail and News and few people
>  told me they couldn't read my messages properly.

They stay readable but seems to be pain to read a mail containing
accentuated characters. 

zeDek
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