[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-08-20 00:29 UTC: > Does anyone know offhand what other barriers remain to > sending email as raw utf-8?
My experience with ESMTP have actually been rather good. The problem is less the email system itself, but more outdated auxiliary tools, such as programs that convert a mailing list archive into HTML and have been written without any appreciation for non-ASCII messages. Many of such tools have been written in Perl, and thanks to the excellent UTF-8 support of the new Perl 5.8, perhaps it is now time for the authors of these to have a look at the issue, because all the conversion and UTF-8 handling infrastructure is now readily there in Perl. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
