Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> writes: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:37, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > 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 ;) > > Well, as long as you use UTF-8 I don't see there being any > problem. Even if someone is using a non Unicode aware client, all of > the regular ASCII characters should still show up just fine. And just > about every application that I use has support for Unicode and has > had it for a while. 99% of all international writing I see online is > done in UTF. (I've never actually read anything in Cyrillic that > wasn't written in UTF.) The only real exception is some Asian fonts > as, from what I've understood, Unicode adoption has been slow and not > always welcome. > > I have my entire system set up to use UTF whenever possible. The only Hmm, would you mind expanding on how you did set it globally ? I am quite interested even though it is not my main problem for instance. > problems I have are when using a plain (i.e. not xterm) console, some > characters don't display correctly. But for communication with > others, I've never had a problem. That's ok for me. But are M$ MUA and others (i.e. Eudora and things like that) ready to deal with Unicode yet ? Actually I don't really want not to be understand by a M$ user (I have dozen friends of mine under the dark side of the Force ;)). zeDek -- "Was mich wesentlich brennender interessiert, Schätzchen, wie nehme ich unter GNUS Typen wie Dich und den Socha (seid ihr identisch?) ins Killfile auf?" Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@weintraube.zrz.tu-berlin.no-spam.de>
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