Jon Babcock wrote:

> By the way Marco, is it proper on this list to switch
> encodings for subject lines and content at will?

I don't know, I really hope yes!

The encoding of an e-mail should be the choice of the sender, not of the
receipient.

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

Had too much chilli last dinner!?

In a couple of mails on this thread, I have used UTF-8 to actually insert
the hanzi we were talking about. I thought that this would have been useful
to people having UTF-8 support and fonts (and I'd expect quite a lot of such
people on a list like this).

However, I took care to *also* retain the hexadecimal references that we
have been using so far, so that people not having Unicode-enabled systems
could follow the discussion anyway.

What's wrong with this?

However, if you are in the Anti-UTF-8 League or something, feel free to use
whatever charset standard you prefer. If my mail program is be able to
decode your charset, I will blame only myself and my software -- that's how
it ought to be.

_ Marco