On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:43:09PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > 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.
If you managed to see the letters in Dotan's signature, you probably don't have a problem with UTF-8. Unfortunetly I can see the characters of chineese / korean spam in mutt as well (or with any other decent mail client of a recent version) And no - I can't read it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
