On 10/22/2012 06:25 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 22 October 2012 11:18, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au>
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.
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