>>>>> Marco Cimarosti <Marco.Cimarosti@...> writes:

>> Or, is this part of an advocacy program to switch to charset=UTF-8.

> Had too much chilli last dinner!?

Email is tricky. I forgot the smiley at the end of my sentence. I wrote with a
smile not a frown.

One of the the most successful mailing lists that I belong to is 'honyaku',
for JE/EJ commercial translators. One reason for its success is that, from
the start, it asked members to use only iso-2022-jp for encoding Japanese. It
is not a moderated list, but every once in a while a suggestion is made.
Also, it asked that the subject headings be left in latin-1 or usascii so that
regardless of the user's email client or its settings, the subject header
could at least be read. Again, nothing is mandatory, and like you I think the
writer should be free to use whatever he wants. But, in honyaku, members are
told that if an encoding besides 2022-jp (JIS) is used to encode those
messages that contain Japanese, or if an encoding besides latin-1 is used in
the subject line, then the writer can assume that some members will not be
able to read what is written.

Perhaps the vote will promote a convention that can be used on this list.

Jon

Ps

I appreciate that you included the hex references for Unicode, which I am
using, rather than taking the time to set up the UCS conversion program on
Emacs which IS on my list of things to do but ...

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Jon Babcock <jon@...>