Re: [email Tutorial] Create your own and free of charge email Network in less than 10 minutes

Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>
> Stefan Claas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> > > In article <[email protected]>
> > > Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Stefan Claas wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > As you see, no MIME headers for international characters are needed.
> > > 
> > > That kind of MIME-free magic is beyond a Taiwanese who's used to use a
> > > Big5 character set, and me.  So it looks as if generations of Internet
> > > programmers were wrong thinking MIME encoding is of any importance.
> > > 
> > > Or does Class once again demonstrate his own incompetence in dealing
> > > with MIME encoding by idealizing homebrew ASCII-only crippleware?
> > 
> > Do us all a favor and test it by yourself.
> 
> No.  As we're not only interested in your success, but even more in the
> reason why it works you'd better do us all a favour and explain how the
> recipient of a two byte message knows that those aren't two ASCII
> characters but instead it's one of the more that 13 thousand Chinese
> characters from the 2-byte Big5 character table.  Please enlighten us!
> 
UTF-8 is the default for modern protocols (HTTP, JSON, etc.).
Go assumes UTF-8 unless told otherwise (e.g., []byte → string).

Big5 vs. UTF-8:

Big5 needs external context (e.g., "this is Big5") to avoid ambiguity
with ASCII.

UTF-8 embeds the context in the byte patterns.

Regards
Stefan