Hi, On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:44:52 -0500, Pete Maclean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Mark, > > Many, many thanks. That is a great help. I had not even been aware of > ISO-8859-15 -- and I am European. > > As it happens we are using c-client for this project so I give you many > thanks for that as well. Without it, we would be very hard pressed to meet > our deadline. With it, we are almost on schedule. > > Pete > > At 12:49 PM 3/25/2004 -0800, Mark Crispin wrote: > > >On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Pete Maclean wrote: > >> - what charsets are commonly used for email? > > > >The ones that I see most commonly are: US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, > >ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R, ISO-2022-JP, GB2312, BIG5, EUC-KR, > >WINDOWS-1251. However, others do appear.
If SHIFT_JIS, EUC-JP and ISO-2022-JP aren't supported you'd have a difficult time entering the Japanese market. UTF-8 is used but is not what I would call wide-spread yet. While ISO-2022-JP is the common format for mail, most application software is still written to use SHIFT_JIS or EUC-JP internally. A shift to UTF-8 is still in the beginning stages since there is no perceived need for UTF-8 except when in an international context where existing charsets are inadequate. Regards, Mark Keasling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
