>>> is there any suggestion what charset is best to use as default? (I'm >>> from Germany so 99,99% of the mostly German and English mails are >>> written and recieved in latin letters.) >>> At the moment I'm using "Latin 9 (ISO)" but I was thinking about >>> changing this to "Unicode (UTF-8)". No real reason given but UTF-8 >>> seems to be the future as many applications and operating systems are >>> changing from ISO to UTF-8. >> I use the same charset to reply mails that I got. > So what is your default charset? You replied to my message by using > us-ascii as charset.
I dont know... Now my editor shows that I have Latin 9 (ISO) set. I tried to reply to a bugtrack mail, then it is Cyrillic. > Also I noticed that my first message does not have any charset at all in > the message header?!? I wrote in "Latin 9 (ISO)", hmmmm...?!? It had charset=iso-8859-15, which _is_ "Latin 9" >>> And a TheBat! specific question: Is it useful to force a charset when >>> answering to mails or keeping to the charset the original mail was? >> I think, in English/German mails, it is not an issue... I think, if >> you would have Chinese, Cyrillic contacts, that would be an issue. > As I wrote, I'm not a real specialist with charsets. I just noticed that > there must be something around when for example Debian changed from > ISO-8859 to UTF-8 with the last release. Also MySQL-Server changed from > ISO-8859 to UTF-8. There must be a reason for this so I asked myself if it > is useful or not doing the same with my email message format. Maybe some > mailer programs may have problems with ISO charsets in the future?!? No. Should not. But as you could have noted, TB also uses components (e.g. the MicroEd editor) that supports Unicode. But it is a different issue. My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to show e.g. a letter "a" instead of one. The world has chosen it because of laziness. Instead of sending the charset and then a charcodes, people send a lot of byte 0 nowadays. Same as HTML mails. It just creates more problems. You know, population grows, the next billion people has to do something, too... (support persons, engineers, etc.) -- Vili ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.18.6 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
