Re: Thinking about Dogfood

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 13 Aug 2001, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

 Hi,

> On 13 Aug 2001 18:03:15 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > 
> > using OutLook express at all. And Evo doesn't have i18n-related means any
> > mature MUA has (ability to select charset to interpret the current message in
> > message view with, ability to configure content-transfer-encoding to send
> > messages in, etc).
> 
> Maybe I am mistaken, but my Evolution has this dialog:
> 
> 	http://primates.ximian.com/~tigert/evo-charset.png 	
> 
> (not attaching it so it doesnt bloat the mailing list)
> 
> Would this be something that might help you?
> 
> (No, I am not an expert in i18n, so this is just a guess - maybe it
> helps?)

 Thanks for trying to help.
 Unfortunately no, it doesn't have anything common with  abilities in the list
you've quoted - the widget on screenshot allows to select in which charset
data is sent.
 The first required functionality in the list is ability to force particular
charset for the message user is currently *reading*. Since some people still
use broken MUAs or web interfaces to mail that don't set charset value
correctly (i.e. always stick iso8859-1).
 The second one is how to quote bytes with value > 127.

 Both abilities are present in mature MUAs.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad