[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8147: New message should not default to CP1252
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:48:46 -0000
#8147: New message should not default to CP1252
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Reporter: rq | Owner: czeidler
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Mail | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:11 axeld]:
> Replying to [comment:7 bonefish]:
> > On a general note, I really doubt that it makes any sense to allow the
user to choose a character set these days.
>
> How so? The number of clients supporting UTF-8 should be greatly
increased, but that's all. I wouldn't mind using UTF-8 again as a default
after the installation.
Why would a user want to set the character set? Seriously, what's the use
case? The only thing I can come up with is that you want to send a mail to
someone from whom you know that they use an ancient mail client that
doesn't support certain charsets. How realistic is that?
I would remove the option and let Mail internally first try a simple
legacy charset and, if that doesn't work, fall back to UTF-8.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8147#comment:12>
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