On Monday, 22. October 2012. 11.25.04 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. I am using KMail (version 4.8.5 that seems to be current for F16). My gmail account is used only to transport mail, I almost never use gmail's web interface (it's just awful...). :-) I looked around in the "set encoding" menu in KMail, but UTF-7 was not offered as a choice. UTF-8 and UTF-16 were, along with a whole bunch of others, but UTF-7 does not appear to be supported. Maybe it's a bug, maybe it was ignored on purpose, maybe the devs just forgot about supporting a deprecated encoding system... Couldn't find out, google didn't find any relevant bug reports AFAICT. But it doesn't matter much anyway. The bigger problem is the mailing list archives, as Ed pointed out. If I look at Tim's original post on the archives, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-October/425826.html one can see that the encoding isn't right. However, I can see that Firefox also does not offer UTF-7 as an encoding choice (and I bet none of the modern web browsers do), so anyone watching the archives will have trouble understanding Tim's e-mail... Best, :-) Marko -- 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
