Re: Most used codification for emails.

From: Maciej Katafiasz (mnews2_at_wp.pl)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:59:15 +0100

On day Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:35:11 +0000 looked the Lord upon his prophet,
and the prophet was numbered among those called Paul Blay. And thus spake
the prophet:

> 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.

Umm, name one site that uses UTF-7? I can't, for sure. And, with this
simple constatation, you can reduce your click count by impressive 50%.

Cheers,
Maciej

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"Tautologizm to cos tautologicznego"
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