On Feb 5, 2008 8:27 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > email was intended to be ASCII (or something discernable as it), and > we have MIME attachments to deal with the rest. I don't need or want > anything more than that from email. Apologies to those (the rest of > the Universe) for which ASCII is inappropriate. For me, email is > text. My text (English) is ASCII.
I agree that email should be text, not html, and that it should be saved in a standard format (but which one? All mbox varieties have problems, MH format has problems, and Maildir and Maildir++ have problems). However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is 2008 and the planet is more united than it has ever been. Unicode, particularly utf-8 should be and is the new standard. Users of the Latin alphabet, and especially English speakers, have no reason to complain since utf-8 is backwards compatible with ascii. Any slight disadvantages unicode might have are more than outweighed by the communication barriers it breaks down. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
