Re: Microsoft Lookout

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: Microsoft Lookout
Date: 09:31 on 21 May 2004
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
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Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>

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