RE: [OT] Re: Windows-1252 Best Fit tables.

[Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>]

At 14:36 06/10/27, Shawn Steele wrote:
>Of course those *should* work, and I'm aware of the effort to allow UTF-8 
>email headers, but in general I was thinking of those devices (like some 
>cell phones) that only understand shift-jis or some such.  I should 
>probably clarify the post.
> 
>I'm also not certain that when I said "use Unicode" that I would've 
>included Unicode in the form "=?UTF-8?Q?Martin D=CD=BCrst?= or 

I don't like that one myself either, but with regards to best
fit, I would include it.

>=?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin D=FCrst?=" :-),

That one of course isn't Unicode; for many characters,
some best fit mapping would be applied.

Regards,    Martin.



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