On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:12:32PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 01:55, Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: [...] >> Also I have it configured to dust-bin any incomimg mail containing UTF-8 >> chars in the Subject header. Avoids a lot of time-wasting. > That's English-language cultural snobbery. I'm a native Anglophone but I live > in a non-English speaking country, Czechia.
Worse than that, it's *American* ignorance and cultural snobbery which also affects various English-speaking countries. The pound sign is not in US-ASCII, and the euro sign is not in ISO-8859-1, for example. Amusingly, peering through my inbox in which I have mail in both Dutch and English, the only one with a UTF-8 subject line is in English. It was probably composed on a Windows box which "helpfully" turned a hyphen into an en-dash.
