Re: Icelandic umlauts.

> Date:         Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:06:42 -0400
> From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> That works too.  But actually Oskar's mail is in UTF-8 rather than Latin-1,
> which allows him to represent any Unicode character.  If you set your mailer
> to expect UTF-8, the Right Thing should be displayed.
John,

as long as the only guy sending UTF-8 so far _doesn't_ put a proper
charset parameter in the MIME Content-Type, no properly written MUA
should try to display it as anything but gibberish. The default in
MIME is US-ASCII, and cannot be overridden by user preferences.

What irks me more is that I've seen nothing outside Latin-1 in Oskar's
posts. There's no need for his MUA to go to UTF-8.

I realize that I will have to fix my mail reader to do best-effort
conversion from Unicode (UTF-7/8) to my terminal charset soon. But I
need to read up on the multi-charset support in Emacs first.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)