- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 02:27:28 +0900
- To: kuro@sonic.net
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, public-i18n-geo@w3.org
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 relying on 'stupid, out-of-date' web mail services, UTF-8 is 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
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