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

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:09:40 +0200
Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com> wrote:

> Brett Robson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> He _is_ using MIME encoding, it is declared as UTF-8 in the header
> just fine. ^_-
 

I guess we'll never know ;)

UX-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by hikari.tlug.jp
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Brett


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