Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-31 Thread Pete Maclean
Rick, Thanks for your response. I'm not sure you're going to get sensible answers to your questions without providing a lot more details about what you're talking about. I realize that I am not making it easy for people. Unfortunately, I am constrained by being under heavy non-disclosure

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-30 Thread Rick Block
Pete, I'm not sure you're going to get sensible answers to your questions without providing a lot more details about what you're talking about. Guessing that you're talking about a client development SDK of some kind, I think the questions that need to be answered are what programming language and

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-30 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Rick Block wrote: Guessing that you're talking about a client development SDK of some kind He's using the c-client API in the UW IMAP toolkit. c-client has the capability of converting arbitrary charset text to UTF-8, and of converting UTF-8 into most charsets. If C and

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-26 Thread Mark Crispin
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: I've been told that when Japanese newspapers print a Chinese person's name, they use their regular Japanese font. Is that true? Yes, it is true. Why don't these newspapers have the same acceptance issue? Because it isn't really an issue. -- Mark --

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-26 Thread Mark Crispin
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Mark Keasling wrote: The basic problem is that Japanese, Chinese, and Korean all use a large number of the same characters and when Not same but similar. The unification effort took characters with both a similar appearance and a similar meaning and lumped them together. Ah,

Off-topic request

2004-03-25 Thread Pete Maclean
Please excuse this rather off-topic message. As this list has given me my most valuable contacts with other email developers over the last few years, I thought it would be a good forum in which to put out this request. I have many years of experience working with email protocols but, in some

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-25 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Pete Maclean wrote: - what charsets are commonly used for email? The ones that I see most commonly are: US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R, ISO-2022-JP, GB2312, BIG5, EUC-KR, WINDOWS-1251. However, others do appear. - can most clients handle

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-25 Thread Rick Block
A couple of additional comments. The ones that I see most commonly are: US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R, ISO-2022-JP, GB2312, BIG5, EUC-KR, WINDOWS-1251. However, others do appear. If you're intending to target People's Republic of China, you MUST (by Chinese law)

Re: Off-topic request

2004-03-25 Thread Mark Keasling
Hi, On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:44:52 -0500, Pete Maclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Mark, Many, many thanks. That is a great help. I had not even been aware of ISO-8859-15 -- and I am European. As it happens we are using c-client for this project so I give you many thanks for that as