[kdepim-users] two questions

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 24 March 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 24/03/2008, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> > There's not much you can do about this except convince the senders
> > of messages without or with wrong encoding to fix or change their
> > mail clients.
>
> That could happen when the mailing list appends messages, such as
> unsubscribe info, to a message. I might send a message in ISO-8859-8
> (because I am a Hebrew user) to a Russian mailing list, which will
> append Russian text to the bottom and change the encoding to KOI8-R.

Well, a mailing list application doing such a thing is broken. It should 
either convert to an encoding that covers Hebrew and Cyrillic, i.e. 
utf-8. Or it should convert the original message to a message part and 
append the mailing list footer as another message part (which is what 
this very mailing list does with my messages because they are 
electronically signed).


> Note that I've yet to see this in practice. My local Israeli LUG
> mailing list is in English, but it is entirely possible. UTF-8 is not
> common in Hebrew, unfortunately, and I know that KOI8-R is a very
> popular Russian encoding.
>
> The only real safe bet is UTF-8 I think. Maybe not even that for
> Asian text.

utf-8 can encode all Unicode characters.


Regards,
Ingo
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