On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, April 17, 2009 12:16 PM +0200 Jan Pieter Cornet
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The problem is that english only uses ascii, and ascii is a subset of
> > practically every other character set. So someone writing in cyrillic
> > and using koi8-r or windows-1251, won't switch to another character set
> > when answering a question on, for example, this mailinglist, using only
> > ascii characters to write english.
>
> What's the penetration now for mail clients that send in UTF-8? Will the
> elephant in the corner (Exchange, OE) do that? Or does it insist on sending
> in "legacy" charsets like 1251? Not that I'm sure universal UTF-8 (with no
> errors) will help, but it's one less complication in the format, and lack
> of it might eventually become a strong spam sign.
Just checked that elephant in the corner and it sent, for example, with:
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="ISO-2022-JP"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hope this helps,
Len
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