> If you only have UTF-8 files you don't need to do anything.  If you
> communicate with other planets (and this message indicates you do :-)

your message was sent:
"Content-Type:   text/plain; charset=US-ASCII"
which could be considered a utf-8 sub-set.
Admittedly, sendmail's hangups with the eighth bit make
sending clear utf-8 documents somewhat unreliable. Email
is one embarrasing case where it may take awhile for the
infrastructure to catch up. (putting all text email in a
base-64 mime attachment can be said to suck)

Does anyone know offhand what other barriers remain to
sending email as raw utf-8?
Its probably less of a mess than DNS...


> you will have to be able to edit ISO-8859-1 files as well.
 
The ultimate goal is that older encodings can start to 
fade away, and having every app that deals with text have
to deal with a plethora of encodings and codeset conversion
issues will be a thing of the past.
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Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
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