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Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts
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Andrzej Adam Filip |
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Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts |
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11 Jul 2005 18:09:35 +0200 |
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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:
> Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@priv.onet.pl> writes:
> > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts than
> > UTF-8. What is your opinion?
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> It's worse because it's
> [1] much less widely implemented than UTF-8
Which specific news readers support UTF-8 but no UTF-7?
> [2] less readable when the reader doesn't know it.
?! I disagree.
UTF-7 uses only prinatable characters.
When I have used UTF-8 for usenet postings sometimes I have got replies
with "botched" encoding e.g. when news readers assumes some encoding and
ignores MIME headers.
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Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip anfi@priv.onet.pl anfi@xl.wp.pl
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)