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On 20 May 2004 at 16:36, Phil Pennock wrote: > Anyone have recommendations for the least hateful MUA for Win32 > platforms, for general users? No need for office tools, just mail. > What I've seen is pushing me towards Pegasus. If you don't mind living with "all the world uses iso-8859-1", perhaps. I've been using Pegasus for years, and my pet hate is that it *still* can't cope with character sets other than iso-8859-1. Specifically, utf-8 email, which isn't all that uncommon, gets mangled if it includes non-ASCII characters such as, say, German umlauts. Which is not too handy if you live in Germany. 'Twould be nice to handle other 8-bit charsets such as iso-8859-2 as well (such as the way Forte Agent does). Look. If I'm on Windows 98 (as I was for quite a while), I can understand that it may be a bit more difficult to display characters that aren't in the current codepage. But it shouldn't require Captain Nuclear to at least display utf-8 encoded mails that only contain characters from the current codepage? And now that I'm on Windows XP, it should be able to handle Unicode fairly easily, wouldn't you think? But perhaps I've just not figured out how it works... /me half-remembers an RFC or something issued by some email consortium thing that said, essentially, "All email programs written or updated after the year X that don't support utf-8 can be considered broken", where X was on the order of 2000, I think. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>There's stuff above here
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