From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53727 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:22:13 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060982468 23299 80.91.224.253 (15 Aug 2003 21:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2269@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 15 23:21:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nm0P-0006uw-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19nlyl-00029r-00; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19nlyc-00029f-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 99506 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2003 21:19:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 99495 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 21:19:13 -0000 Original-Received: from rms.gnu-rox.org (HELO smtp.gnu-rox.org) (213.41.134.247) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2003 21:19:13 -0000 Original-Received: from fxgs.gnu-rox.org.gnu-rox.org (fxgs.gnu-rox.org [10.0.0.10]) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF353E15B for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:18:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Adress: zedek@gnu-rox.org X-URL: http://www.gnusfr.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gnu-rox.org X-Gpg-Key-ID: 4CE51D71 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: 298B 37DE E2EF C030 5D64 6CFF C3DA E70E 4CE5 1D71 X-Gpg-Affinity: Will accept encrypted message for GNUpg X-Disclaimer: Fourty Two X-Accept-Language: en, fr X-Face: 63TbQAY?C>dKDtNNr7 (Frank Schmitt's message of "Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:39:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53727 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53727 <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank Schmitt writes: > Xavier Maillard writes: >=20=20 > > 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 ? >=20=20 > 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. =20 > 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.=20 zeDek --=20 "Die Geteilten selbst sind jedoch nie Feindbild der Vereiner, denn dies sind immer nur die Teiler."=20 Norbert Harry Marzahn <70oKlG6LbXB@nm01.vision.IN-BRB.DE> --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PSTYw9rnDkzlHXERAiGwAKCAJBmRrqA2j9otkDe63/JtmyOgJACeKBR4 /7SuHKfkr4EOk32V3CjHYBU= =vaor -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--