From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Subject: Re: Displaying different character sets on console
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:16:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16888.59823.444944.118614@parhasard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pszsmecg.fsf@koldfront.dk>
Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Adam Sjøgren:
> I am curious as to why the headers specify a Japanese charset to
> tranfer Greek letters?
Because Mule was implemented in a way that’s very friendly to ISO 2022,
which specified a universal character encoding a couple of decades before
Unicode. So the natural Mule way to encode a non-ASCII character in a mail
is to write it using ISO 2022 and to specify iso-2022 as the MIME
charset. (The -jp is defaulted to because Mule was implemented in Japan; it
could equivalently be -kr or -cn.)
Of course, outside East Asia, very little software understands ISO 2022, and
for the sake of recipients’ clients’ it should have used iso-8859-7 or
UTF-8.
--
“Ah come on now Ted, a Volkswagen with a mind of its own, driving all over
the place and going mad, if that’s not scary I don’t know what is.”
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-26 10:25 David Sumbler
2005-01-26 14:53 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-01-27 13:16 ` Aidan Kehoe [this message]
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