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Comment	>> at least one of his MUA's) in that charset. And generally people >> aren't doing something like responding to a Norwegian message in >> Mandarin Chinese, so this charset hint is useful in almost all cases. > > actually, it is quite short-sighted approach to the problem - > especially in case if there still exist mail clients not sticking to > original encoding, but adjusting it to the minimum - for example - it > is real situation that the reply to UTF8 message is demoted to > ISO8859-1 just because the text of reply does not contain letters > with vowels. > > As for my specific case - it is nothing extraordinary having two or > three languages in replay - Latvian, English and Russian for which > only UTF8 offers full coverage. > > the problem already starts with the lack of automatic promotion from > transliterated Latvian (iso8859-1, using "aa" instead of "?" etc) to > the correct one - iso8859-13 or UTF8 > >> But the code would be so much easier to maintain if we just convert >> everything to UTF-8 and consistently stick with that internally. > > do you have any internal plans when this "will hit the ground"? > >> Having the user pick the charset is simply out of the question. >> Nobody, outside of maybe programmers and computer scientists, has any >> clue what charsets mean anyway, so giving them an option to change is >> completely pointless. > > so, if one do not understands how the air plane is flying, lets > delete it from the list of available transportation means including > for those, who know even how to steer them? Do you really think that > "stupidification" of software is the way to go?
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