Hi, I had have already a discussion about this on the ding mailing-list and there opinions was quite different. So I am asking it again here just to get the maximum amount of informations before taking a decision. In fact I want(ed) to know whether it is/was safe to use Unicode (i.e. utf-8) encoding system to communicate on Usenets and so forth for mails ? It seems that 10 years after its creation, Unicode is not as used as it should be (my opinion) and so, I am not sure many software (communication software) are "aware" of Unicode stuff. Except bloated piece of software such as Outlook, is there any risk I can encounter by using utf-8 in my daily default encoding system ? I am pretty sure the majority of the *N*X MUA can easily handle/deal with it but better have some more opinions on that. So what is the deal ? iso-soup or Unicode ? I still have the option to switch my encoding (automatically) according to where/whom I am writing but I'd rather not do that and uniformize a little bit to prevent ugly configuration and accidents ;) Regards, zeDek P.S.: do NOT CC me ( I am subscribed to this list ). -- alt.fan.freedom-knights Fanclub for the pro-free-speech group infamous.
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