Re: OT: Character set
Mark Andrews <[email protected]>
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In message <007e01ca2105$33630180$9a290480$@com>, "Charles Oppermann" writes: > > > Sent from my Windows Mobile phone > > > > Well then I suggest you find out how to configure your mail app to prevent > it > > from creating Windows-unique addess like these: > > > > > =?windows-1252?Q?Ben_Fallon?= <[email protected]>, > > > =?windows-1252?Q?Gary_Dunn?= <[email protected]>, > > > =?windows-1252?Q?freebsd-mobile?= <[email protected]> > > Looks like the X-Mailer did that, Zarafa. There is nothing wrong with using > the Windows-1252 character set on the client. > > > This is not an excuse to start a FreeBSD vs Ubuntu war. > > Nor a Windows war. There is also no excuse for a MUA to set the character set to anything other that ASCII in email when only the ASCII subset is being used. This is bad MUA design. The developer was lazy. There is a similar issue when spaces are converted to for HTLM then back converted to =A0 for printed-quotable. Most MUA's fail to do things right. Mark > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"