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Old 10-06-2005, 05:35 PM
dkarp dkarp is offline
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Default Utf-8 != Us-ascii

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Originally Posted by Noise
Do that. It should be one of your priorities, as there is not just american/english language in the world.
Actually, we send messages in UTF-8, a charset that encodes Unicode and hence can represent pretty much every character in every language. Switching to a smaller charset (e.g. iso-8859-1) will actually make the system less portable, not more. Modern MUAs don't have any problem with UTF-8, but according to the up-thread posters there are enough old mailers that sysadmins may need to use a small, local charset to make certain users happy.
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