[IAEP] UTF-8 Stars (was Re: Sugar Labs school server)

[Bernie Innocenti]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you can't see those characters correctly, check whether your mailer
>> supports UTF-8, and if necessary, turn it on. Also check whether you
>> have a good selection of Unicode fonts installed.
> 
> But don't set it to on by default on newly composed emails. Many
> mailservers refuse to forward - and in some case will not even bounce
> - utf-8 emails. It's wrong, but it is.

And in many cases, utf-8 gets base64-encoded (rather than using mime
quoted printable as usual).  Very grep unfriendly.


> vger.kernel.org is one of them and I suffered a season of "why didn't
> my email make it to the list?" headscratchers.

Hehe, I think they do it as a "selection" process :-)

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