Hi,
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:40:27AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Can plain 7-bit ascii e-mail support languages other than english? Is
> there an SMTP header to specify this? Just curious.
I think it depends on what languages you talk about. But the point
is, if you send mime, 8-bit ascii, you have a full support for all
this, you are still sending plain text emails, and you will se no
complaints at all - every decent client can decode that...As opposed
to html mail, which of course can be decoded - like pine does, and
my mutt is also cooverts it to text on the fly, but the point is: Do
not waste bandwith (yes it counts more and more, if you consider the
zillions of emails sent all over the world) with html mail, if you
ONLY type text, and you do not use any feature for which you need
html.
> However, HTML-encoded e-mail is pretty much the standard now. If
> there's an option, great. We'll just have to live with it it. My
> e-mail client, pine, seens to decode HTML decently (in fact, I
> wasn't aware that any of the mail on this list was in HTML!).
> Time to update some of the older Unix mail programs.
For short messages, I think html markup can add a lot to the size of
email. And still there are lot of users (mainly unix console) who
use an email client which cannot read html. I do not think that they
should upgrade, just because someone decided to send an email in a
format which messes up the text for their reader, and add
absolutely nothing to the info...(Note, I am not talking about
sending graphics or web pages where there is a lot of info, which
can only be presented using markup!)
Just a final question: What is your estimate for the percentage of
email messages which *ACTUALLY* hold info, which can only be
presented in html (do not count smileys:-))?
Regards Viktor
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