Allegedly, on or about 03 July 2014, Stephen Morris sent: > I have view-->Character Encoding set to Unicode and I see those > characters in Fred's Mail but not in Rahul's. I have opened Rahul's > mail in a new tab and switched the encoding to Western and i shows the > characters as you said, what I have also noticed is that in Fred's > reply there are more of those characters than what there is in Rahul's > mail. As a general rule, at least for reading mail, you do not set defaults to something like that. The default for mail, is us-ascii (the default being used when there is no header is present to say what the message content is written in, then the simplest us-ascii is the norm). Anything else should (probably "must") have headers declaring what it is, and the mail client will pay attention to them. A need to pick something else to display mail arises from dealing with broken clients that send something else without saying what it is. And, in ancient computing times, various systems which used all sorts of different encoding schemes, and never bothered to declare what they use. In this day and age, there should be no client that composes a message without describing the character encoding that it used. Such a client would have been written by a really crap author. For composing mail, your editor's default (that's a different setting), should be the same as your system's, or your mail client should be able to figure it out for themselves. Some can't, hence the need to be able to set a default, here. When composing mail that includes portions of someone else's text (a reply with quotes), the mail client should be transcoding any different schemes, so that the whole message uses the same scheme. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
