Re: OT: TECH: Unicode email clients (was Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Be

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 20:11:07 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:
> Speaking of which, the one area I'm seriously lagging behind in
> Unicode adoption is my email client. It can do WGL4, but I don't know
> whether it can do very much more than that. Certainly, trying to
> paste 16-bit characters produces a weird mish-mash of letters
> stripped of their accents and question marks.
>
> See also this:
>
> "éšzn??"
> ("e-acute, s-caron, z-acute, n-undercomma, IPA-script-a, greek-ksi")
>
> It frustrates me greatly.
>
> Does anyone know a Windows mail client that is HTML-safe and fully
> Unicode-aware, and particularly is not Outlook? Preferably, without
> sacrificing any of the functionality and ease-of-use of my current
> solution.
I'm using M2, which is the mail client integrated into Opera browser.
It's as Unicode-capable as the browser is, [at least, I was able to read
Mark Reed's example with no trouble:  sending, I'll type your example
text-- éšźņɑξ --as I havnt had the chance to test the outcome yet.  I'm
not sure of it, since I dont see a charset option, so it might send it in
the default charset.]


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