OT: Character set

[Mark Andrews]

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?= <bfallon at itbuildersinc.com>,
> > >   =?windows-1252?Q?Gary_Dunn?= <osp at aloha.com>,
> > >   =?windows-1252?Q?freebsd-mobile?= <freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org>
> 
> 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 &nbsp; for
HTLM then back converted to =A0 for printed-quotable.  Most MUA's
fail to do things right.

Mark
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