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Re: UTF-8 and e-mail (Re: [tlug] Translating old to new kanji forms using tr)



On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:53:19 +0300
Tapio Peltonen <tappel@example.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:28:07PM +0900, Brett Robson wrote:
> 
> > You should send Japanese email in 
> > ISO-2022-JP
> 
> I beg to differ. UTF-8 is by the definition the better option, and I
> think everyone should at least consider updating their e-mail clients to
> utf-8 capable ones. And utf-8 is likely to be the _only_ option if one
> has to input both $Bkw!&k|%cp,[(Band for example non-ascii latin characters
> (e.g. $B%F!"%F%+%F%7(B). I have to do this routinely.
> 

Then you should be using MIME encoding.


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Brett Robson 
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