Re: RE: Eudora (was: Is there Unicode mail out there?)

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 18:12:12 EDT

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Carl Brown suggested:

> If you convert to iso-8859-1 you lose characters that is just as bad as
> sending Windows-1252 out as iso-8859-1.

Well... If the author converts to ISO 8859-1 on the way out, the author
might "lose" characters. If you send 1252 labelled as 8859 to the world,
everyone else gets annoyed. That seems worse than the author losing a few
smart quote marks... ;-)

Rick

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