default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
given but UTF-8 seems to be the future as many applications and operating systems are changing from ISO to UTF-8. And a TheBat! specific question: Is it useful to force a charset when answering to mails or keeping to the charset the original mail was? And what does the option default charset

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Vili
I think, this mail should have gone to TBUDL. And what does the option default charset in the folder properties box do? Is this the charset which is used when creating a new message or replying a message? And what about the use character set option in account properties / new

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Vili
I just realized you are an old beta tester. Strange questions... I thought somebody is lost. is there any suggestion what charset is best to use as default? (I'm from Germany so 99,99% of the mostly German and English mails are written and recieved in latin letters.) At the moment I'm using

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
Hi Vili! I think, this mail should have gone to TBUDL. Good point. Just forgot about this list. ;-) I'm also subscribed but I never write there... And what does the option default charset in the folder properties box do? Is this the charset which is used when creating a new message

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
this to Unicode (UTF-8). No real reason given but UTF-8 seems to be the future as many applications and operating systems are changing from ISO to UTF-8. I use the same charset to reply mails that I got. So what is your default charset? You replied to my message by using us-ascii as charset

Re[2]: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Vili
but UTF-8 seems to be the future as many applications and operating systems are changing from ISO to UTF-8. I use the same charset to reply mails that I got. So what is your default charset? You replied to my message by using us-ascii as charset. I dont know... Now my editor shows that I have

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Vili, PMFJI ... On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 5:56:32 PM Vili [V] wrote: V My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to V show e.g. a letter a instead of one. Just to clarify this: Unicode != UTF-8! That's an important difference!!! Unicode is a character

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello again, On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 10:16:38 PM Peter [PP] (me) wrote: [...] PP UTF-8 is an *ENCODING* of these characters. In short: UTF-8 says which PP position in the Unicode-table the character is at. UTF-8 uses 8 bit PP for standard ISO-8859 characters and 16 bit for special

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thursday, March 27, 2008, 22:16:38, Peter Palmreuther wrote: V My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to V show e.g. a letter a instead of one. That's a very bad advice. We're not using 300 baud modems anymore, and a typical Received header added when the message

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
Hi Vili! Also I noticed that my first message does not have any charset at all in the message header?!? I wrote in Latin 9 (ISO), h...?!? It had charset=iso-8859-15, which _is_ Latin 9 Does the mailing list alter the mail header and modifies charset information? This would not make any

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
Hi Peter, and first of all thank you for all the information about this character set stuff you are providing. Very interesting and also helpful. Sure: for e-mail there is a method to declare the used character set, but not for text files ... And if used commonly for text products, why stick

Re: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sebald
Hi all! My mail header looks like this: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary0173761011== Maybe because of the S/MIME certificate. I will send this mail without S/MIME. But how does the foreign mail client know how to show my mail? Ok. Without S/MIME I also get

Re[2]: default charset

2008-03-27 Thread Kertész Vilmos
Hello Peter, V My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to V show e.g. a letter a instead of one. Just to clarify this: Unicode != UTF-8! That's an important difference!!! Unicode is a character table that is capable of containing more than the usual 8-bit char