Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- Subject: Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:09:54 -0600
At 16:12 +0200 10/2/07, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
>Le 2 oct. 07 à 15:32, Axel Luttgens a écrit :
>>On 2/10/07 15:21, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>>Hello Emmanuel.
>>>
>>>Just for see, using Mail.app, I set the encoding to UTF 8 and add an ellipsis in the Subject header.
>>>How will be treated, I don't know (as I don't know why the MacRoman encoding is always greyed).
>>
>>And it has been nicely encoded according to the RFC, so as to avoid 8-bit characters in mail headers:
>>
>> =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_Bad_Characters_from_Unicode=E2=80=A6?=
>Is there a way to set Mail.app to default to UTF 8 ?
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_Bad_Characters_from_Unicode=E2=80=A6?=
Subject: Re: Bad Characters from =?utf-8?q?Unicode=E2=80=A6?=
Subject: =?windows-1252?q?Re=3A_Bad_Characters_from_Unicode=85?=
And there are still AppleScripters who complain that perl and C are too hard to read.
Everyone should try sorting recent messages by subject. Do the formatted subject lines match the original? Does your mail client support sorting by In-Reply-To: and Reference: headers?
There are reasons for unicode. Printing, mathematics, chemistry, and non-Romance languages come to mind. Efficient electronic communication is NOT one of them. There is a high correlation between styled subject lines and spam. If it weren't for the List-ID: header I would never have seen the three messages above.
Shall we talk about gratuitous word wrapping (above) ? The SMTP RFCs allow paragraphs to be 998 characters long. The 80 character limit is to support teletype machines and thermal printers.
Let's hear it for English-like email.
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