Re: tlug: Advantages of 'pine' and others

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Babcock <jon@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com> writes:

    Marcus> I have to say that xemacs 20.4 with mule and vm is great
    Marcus> for reading and writing multilingual mail.

    Jon> Can you jump easily to Chinese (big5 or gb-encoded) mail,
    Jon> too? I wonder if you've tried using it for CK messages as
    Jon> well as J?

I know there are several Korean users and I believe I've seen Chinese
users on the VM mailing list (writing in English, of course).

The limitation of VM is that multilingual mail must use MIME content
types.  It will not autodetect codes by scanning the text.  Of course,
if you're actually in a CJK world, this is what you want since it's
kinda tough to separate EUC-JP/CN/KR, shift JIS, and Big5.  It's ugly
in the raw, but you can actually mix CJK in the text of a message by
using MIME multi-part format and get well-formatted displays.  I'm not
sure if it handles ISO-2022-INTL aka ISO-2022-JP-2 very well, but
that's really a Mule function not a VM/MIME issue.

If it doesn't do C and K out of the box, it should be easy enough to
configure by adding MIME charsets and if necessary corresponding fonts 
to the vm tables.

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