Re: [nail-devel] Setting the proper encoding on reply emails?

[Suresh R. <ops...@gm...>]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:08:59 +0100, Gunnar Ritter
<Gun...@pl...> wrote:
> The only advantage I can see is that if the receiver has a client that
> understands only one character set, he normally gets the reply in that
> one too. But asking the user about this every time is nonsense in my
> opinion. I could change the new mechanism such that it tries to send
> the reply in the original character set first before 'sendcharsets'
> is applied. But since one can easily order the 'sendcharsets' list
> starting with the least demanding ones, I don't think it would gain
> much.

The issue is interoperablity.  Unicode is a useful fallback in the
unix / linux world, but on several older versions of windows, unicode
support is godawful, and there may or may not be the appropriate
"language packs" installed for unicode, or for multiple charsets.

Having a sendcharsets list that takes into account a whole lot of
charsets is not a useful way to go ... you need two values.

1. Default value (when composing a new email)
2. Adopt the same charset when you're typing a reply
3. Set a fallback charset (utf-8)

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops...@gm...)