On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:14:20PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:07:13PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > The headers I received make no mention of character set - does your mailer > > mark the message in any way? If not, then STMP will assume it's good old > > 7 bit ASCII > > Thus we are back to using uuencode :-)
Which, actually, might not be a bad thing. It will give Unicode a boost by forcing people to become more aware of this issue. To a large extent, the software industry as a whole is driven by what makes the lives of programmers easier--as a simple example, programming editors are written by and for programmers, who use them to write other programs. If editors become Unicode by default (both input and output) then the other programs will start to become Unicode by default. Do we at least all agree that it would be a good thing if Unicode were the default character set for everything, everywhere? That is, editors, xterms, keyboards, etc? --Dks
