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

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

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.

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.

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