Re: ... convert_unicode.c ...

Yar Tikhiy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.bogofilter.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:55:53AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hoping I may speak for Cyrillic users, they would rather choose
> > between Windows-1251 and KOI8-R as their default-from-charset since
> > literally nobody uses CP866 on the Net side.  Interestingly, I
> > receive most ham in KOI8-R and most spam in Windows-1251, and I've
> > never seen an email in CP866.  However, today most non-English
> > spammers seem to specify charset right for their recipients to be
> > able to read the junk in one click--who will ever spend two clicks
> > to read spam?  Therefore US-ASCII is a reasonable default-from-charset
> > for Cyrillic users.  I hope that it is for Chinese folks, too :-)
> 
> I'm not sure if someone hears your hopes.
> 
> I see considerable amounts of Korean and Chinese spam which has specific
> patterns of character pairs, so it seems somewhat common in Asia to
> override or default the specified charset to some national common
> charset.

Perhaps someone concerned will show up on the list some day; I can't
see how we should care about this issue until then.

-- 
Yar
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