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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Authored by: Fairly on Aug 13, '07 02:21:53PM

Off topic but can't resist: as Outlook is the biggest bug farm in the history of the universe I somehow think your choking it is not such a bad thing? Seriously: I don't get why M$ are still peddling that thing, why people are still using it, and why we should have to adjust to them and not to us. Sorry but it does irk me and others. UTF-8 (and not UTF-16) is a good general idea for mail but we'd all have to use it. But I think that will become a standard. Yes Yahoo mail is really bad at that but they're bad at a lot of things. Give them another ten years and they'll catch up. No place for a rant but if you ever have a bad day computing then count your blessings for Apple Mail and mail standards are a giant leap ahead of what everyone else suffers through every day.



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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Authored by: Pedro Estarque on Aug 13, '07 05:44:36PM

I hate Outlook with all my strengths, but Mail.app is one buggy awkward beast.
Just have a quick search for Mail.app in this site and you'll see.
It is amazing how such an old simple thing, such as sending an email, can still be a problem in 2007.
I share your feelings about UTF-8. Why can't we all use it for everything that involves text and be through with it. Standards have a reason to be.
Email needs a reformulation. Let's decide about plain vs html vs text/enriched, and what char encoding to use. And while we are at it, we could have a look at this tiny thing called spam. Web 2.0 ... Email 2.0.



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