On 24 Nov 2018, at 14:37, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > If you might be using characters beyond an 8-bit character set, then UTF-8 is > the best way to go.
If there is even the slightest possibility that you will be using characters beyond the basic *7* bit character set, I would say that UTF-8 is the best choice because there is no code-table issue with UTF-8. We’ve all seen messages (or web pages) munged because something assumes a specific code page. That doesn’t happen with UTF-8. Thankfully there are fewer and fewer places where UTF-8 doesn’t work, though it looks like mail headers will be 7 bit until the heat death of the universe. -- No taxation without misrepresentation.
