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--/GPgYEyhnw15BExa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:59:25AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > I'm not sure what exactly you are implying here - or which particular > > mail client / message is your hate targeted at. >=20 > Two categories of clients, I guess. First, all the spawn-of-redmond > ones that used Windows-1251 instead of ISO-8859.5. Yes, it looks like we are in violent agreement here. Unfortunately, as I said before, for the present we will have to live with this :( > Second, Mutt, for not being able to distinguish between messages that > only use code points below 128 and those that have to be explicitly > tagged with a charset, Yeah, what I said about the minimal charset detector :( =09 > even if it can't use UTF-8. Well, Mutt itself can, but some of the people that I keep in touch with still use mail readers that can't. And yes, I know that the Right Thing(tm) would be to drag them kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat, but still... > Oh, and for spawn-of-redmond for doing such a crappy job of Unicode > support that Windows apps find it easier not to bother. I can second that, too - the whole *A/*W() mess made me not bother in the past years when I had to deal with this, too. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@xxxxxxx.xxx roam@xxxxx.xx roam@xxxxxxx.xxx PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. --/GPgYEyhnw15BExa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBKzJ67Ri2jRYZRVMRAvLRAJ4ugQ90MwuuKauBfYspmNgiQ+r3oQCfaBzG 1dXHXg7/iDtKGJYWgr/iTus= =pwOH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/GPgYEyhnw15BExa--There's stuff above here
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