Re: Most used codification for emails.

From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:35:11 -0000

"Nacho" wrote ...
> Joshua A. Reyer wrote:
>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>
>>> I'd probably stick with JIS (ISO-2022-JP) because most people
>>> will be expecting that - it's the only one Outlook Express can
>>> _compose_ in.

Actually I mis-spoke slightly. JIS is the only one of the /Japanese/
encodings that Outlook Express can compose in. Unicode is more
of an 'Everything' encoding.

I tend to ignore Unicode for a practical, if trivial, reason.
I, and probably a lot of the Microsoft crowd at least, resort to
"Japanese (Auto-select)" as the first choice when trying to view
Japanese text. Unfortunately that won't work if the text is actually
in Unicode. There's no particular difficulty in selecting Unicode (UTF-7)
and Unicode (UTF-8) afterwards to try them but the fiddle bugs me.
 
>> It's the only one Mozilla will let you compose in as well. Well, you
>> can compose Japanese in some other encoding, like Unicode, but then
>> Mozilla will get mad at you and tell your mail may not be readable.
>
> In fact, with my default encoding (Western 8859-1), it suggest UTF-8
> when sending.
>
> Also I think that UTF-8 is the only coding that allows me mix Japanese
> and Spanish characters.

Well that's one of the _good_ reasons to use Unicode. _If_ they can
read it by all means use UTF-8 when you want accented characters
in your text.
 
> Well, I'll try to use ISO-2022-JP and I'll see if all my friends can
> read it.

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