[pmmail-list] UTF-8

Paul Hodges pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:29:42 +0000


On=20Fri,=2007=20Mar=202003=2011:32:41=20+0300,=20Tommi=20Koivula=20wrote:=


>=20=20There=20is=20no=20"UTF-8"=20selection=20in=20charsets.=20Should=20P=
MMail=20even=20support=20it?

UTF-8=20encoded=20Unicode=20is=20now=20the=20preferred=20character=20set=20=
for=20Internet
use;=20the=20iso-8859=20series=20(not=20all=20supported=20by=20PMMail=20ye=
t,=20notably
iso-8859-15)=20is=20now=20somewhat=20deprecated.=20=20Although=20the=20use=
=20of=20UTF-8
is=20still=20quite=20small=20(about=203%=20of=20the=20mail=20reaching=20th=
is=20office=20in
the=20last=20three=20months),=20it=20is=20just=20reaching=20the=20point=20=
where=20it=20is
starting=20to=20inconvenience=20me=20(in=20the=20UK,=20the=20pound=20sign,=
=20=A3,=20is=20an
affected=20character)=20as=20new=20clients=20are=20appearing=20that=20have=
=20it=20as
their=20default.

I=20suspect=20that=20this=20should=20be=20the=20first=20fix=20to=20PMMail=20=
when
development=20next=20has=20a=20push,=20if=20PMMail=20is=20to=20survive=20a=
nd=20go=20forward.

Paul=20Hodges
QBS=20Software=20Ltd=20=20
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