Re: [Ilohamail-users] wanted: comments regarding unicode

[Steven P. <ste...@ya...>]

I personally dont see this being an issue. Alot of users that i know of
with Ilohamail use new browsers. I dont see many users now days using
older browsers. Although i know a few users who use MacOS....so having
options to have these turned on....could be a plus.

Steven Pignataro

--- Ryo Chijiiwa <ry...@il...> wrote:
> I'm working on improving IlohaMail's multilingual capabilities for 0.9,
> and I need some comments from the general user population...
> 
> For 0.9 (and onwards) I'm considering changing all translated user
> interface text to UTF-8 (as HTML entities).  This will allow the UI text
> to be displayed correctly regardless of the page's actual character set
> encoding, when viewed using a moderately modern OS/browser.  For
> example, it'll be possible to have a Japanese UI and still view a
> Windows-1256 (Arabic) encoded message.  This is very cool.
> 
> But it also has a couple of drawbacks.  The first is that the UI might
> not display at all on older browsers and systems that lack unicode
> support or fonts (i.e. Netscape/IE 4.x, Windows 95 and perhaps 98, MacOS
> prior to 8.5).  Could this be a problem?
> Another minor issue is that output sizes will increase significantly,
> since each letter will take up to 8bytes, as opposed to the usual
> 2bytes, which might in turn lower perceived performance.
> 
> Any comments are welcomed, either on or off list.
> 
> Ryo
> 
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