powermail-discuss Digest #2850 - Monday, May 31, 2010
Re: Bug with international letters eg. ISO-8859-1
by "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug with international letters eg. ISO-8859-1
From: "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:18:00 +0200
Sean McBride suggested:
>If not, it's really a nail in the coffin. An email client that can't
>send email to everyone is not a good thing, analogous to a web browser
>that doesn't work with all websites.
As I have said earlier this is unlikely to be such a big problem in the
real world as a majority of domain names registered by people actually
using their brains have double entries per web site. So that
"svenskapotäter.se" for example would also be registered under
"svenskapotater.se" pointing to the same IP.
I suppose a small number of domains are not set up this way, but that is
and should be the norm for years to come.
Case in point, the web browser IE version 6 is still in wide use and
doesn't support IDN domain names. While number of web developers don't
support IE 6 with all bells and whistles of the design and content, they
do have to make sure that the site at least should be able to be visited
by IE6 users. Anyone not registering a backup for their IDN domain are
negligent business-wise IMHO.
So, the real problem hereis for the holders of domain names to
communicate their alternative to the people whom with they which to
communicate. Like making it clear on their web site what the options are.
That said, support in PM for IDN domain names woud be a welcome addition.
MB
Technoids:
PM 6.0.3 build 4609 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1TB
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