YAW x 3 Char sets

[John Angelico]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:12:42 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>It'd be nice if we could configure a default charset encoding against
>individual users in the address-book, so that if their emails lack 
>charset="..." lines, then we could still say that "this guy" uses 
>ISO-Latin-1, and this other guy uses Latin-2, Win1252, CP850, CP437 
>or whatever.  

>The default should be US-ASCII (I think!)

Hush, Simon (and shame on you - what an embarrasment you are to the Crown and Ol' Blighty!)

If you don't remind them there ex-colonials they might eventually give up their proprietary ideas about the Internet. 

We should be able to define a "default/template addressee" for our address book and specify our own defaults for lots 
of things.

>
>I get a lot of email from lotus notes users ("my comments are in 
>blue" ;-), and one of the many unusual but legal things it does, is 
>change charset half-way through a message to allow alternative glyphs 
>to be specified, in this case it has done it just for an apostrophe 
>(but one slanting like an acute accent - the "opposite" of "`"):

Blue mail now! :)

But isn't that character a part of my keyboard...? Yes there it is next to the "1" key, above the tab key - the 
unshifted key for tilde (~) -0 aha! it's ` the BACKWARDS SINGLE QUOTE aka the left rabbit ear (singular)

Why should we need a special char set for that key?


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 Zealot
Melbourne Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Email: talldad@kepl.com.au
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