Re: UTF-8 recommendation [Was: a few problems in O-charset-lang.html]

Jungshik Shin wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote:

>>to invest.  From this experiment, I have to sadly conclude
>>that UTF-8 is not for prime time use as an e-mail encoding.
> 
> 
>   As long as your recipients use modern email clients instead of
> relying on 'stupid, out-of-date' web mail services, UTF-8 is
> perfectly fine. Unfortunately, there are a lot of web mail
> users. My rule of thumb is to use UTF-8 except when sending to
> web mail users.

I forgot to note that Qualcomm Eudora doesn't count as a modern email 
client. It's ironic that some employees of Qualcomm took part in writing 
MIME-related RFCs, but Eudora's support of MIME (especially on Windows) 
is poor at best. Perhaps, Qualcomm is big enough to have communication 
barriers sprinkled all over the company.

Jungshik