[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8147: New message should not default to CP1252
- From: "rq" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:10:42 -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 rq):
Replying to [comment:4 siarzhuk]:
> Replying to [comment:3 rq]:
> > Replying to [comment:2 siarzhuk]:
> > > What if Mail guesses the encoding from the current locale settings?
> >
> > This default could and probably should be configurable by localizers,
but I would still suggest to default to UTF-8, and leave the localization
possibility only for those locales where UTF-8 is really suboptimal or
unwelcome.
>
> I suspect in most regions UTF-8 is unwelcomed because 8-bits encodings
were applicated much earlier than multibyte ones and still widely used in
communication (re-read the comment from Axel above).
You should re-read its second sentence too. :)
> And I see no reasons to prohibit any locale to use it's region-specific
8-bit charset as default e-mail encoding.
>
> So default E-Mail encoding is definitely the object of localization. ;)
Agreed. I was just suggesting to suggest UTF-8 as default, not to prohibit
anyone from using something else in their localization.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8147#comment:5>
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