On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:29:11 -0400 Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote:
> Just to start the discussion: I'd say default to UTF-8 if not > otherwise specified and can't be worked out. (How hard to work on > 'working it out' is a question, of course.) It's the growing > standard, as far as I can tell. +1. UTF-8 is the best choice. (Modern) Perl handles it very nicely. Even non-UTF-8 messages should be recoded into UTF-8 for body rules; otherwise, making a rule that looks for things like "抵押" will be well-nigh impossible. Regards, David.