On 10/22/2012 06:25 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 22 October 2012 11:18, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Tim: >>>> Discouraged by who? It's supposedly *the* answer to email >> Ed Greshko: >>> UFT-7 isn't widely used.... But if you want to use it go ahead. >> You said it's discouraged. I've never seen any such comment. Where do >> you find that advice? >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7#cite_note-0 > http://www.imc.org/imcr-010.html > "It should be noted that the Unicode Standard also defines the UTF-7 > charset, which was intended for Internet mail. However, MIME is quite > capable of carrying UTF-8, and UTF-8 is expected to be used in many > protocols, not just Internet mail. Fortunately, very few vendors > implemented UTF-7, and its use is strongly discouraged in Internet > mail." > > Essentially it was never a great solution to the problem it was > supposed to address (didn't really beat existing methods, UTF-8 in > MIME generally turned out to be better). Still, whatever reader Marko > is using should be able to handle it, if it is GMail then it's a bug > in that. > And, taking email out of the equation, the UTF-7 doesn't display correctly within the Fedora Archives. So, anyone using special characters that need to be *encoded* in UTF-7 will appear "unreadable" in the archives. So, if you use = and _ , etc it will be garbage to most people. Not very friendly for users of the archive. IMHO. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
