Jon Babcock wrote:

> >>>>> 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.

And I should have inferred the smiley, and added one myself. Sorry, I had a
very spicy dinner the night before.

> 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.

But the only non-Latin character set used on that list was Japanese! I
understand that Qalam is to talk about any script. So future discussions may
need to show examples in Ge'ez, Cyrillic, Klingon, or whatever.

The problem with using UTF-8 in the message body is that the header gets
mangled to (Base-64 encoded, to be more precise), even if it only contains
ASCII data.

I am not a specialist of MIME, but I understand that the problem is when
Microsoft Outlook e-mails talk with Unix-box e-mails. I am not sure as to
which side is the guilty one.

However, I will not annoy people with UTF-8 messages for quite a long while
now... As you can read in my signature, I am changing my e-mail (and job),
and my new web-based e-mail doesn't allow me to set the encoding.

Ciao.
_ Marco

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