ghugh Song
By the way, I really cannot understand the position of UTF-8 in Korea. I am sure that you do not know about the situation either. Everyone uses eucKR, not UTF-8.
Of course I know that currently more people use EUC-KR than UTF-8 in Korea. That doesn't mean this will never change. SuSE Linux tries to support both EUC-KR *and* UTF-8. The default locale for Korean is still ko_KR.eucKR. But ko_KR.UTF-8 is also supported and users should be able to use it if they want.
Is UTF-8 somehow the encoding scheme recommended over the globe?
Yes. It makes it possible to use many languages at the same time. For Linux like systems, UTF-8 is certainly the way to go in the future. For more information see also: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html (UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linuxd by Markus Kuhn) Also interesting is the linux-utf8@nl.linux.org mailing list. To subscribe, send a message to linux-utf8-request@nl.linux.org with the subject subscribe. The archive of this mailing list is here: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/.
I do not think that anyone in his right mind would ever switch to UTF-8 because she/he will immediately have trouble in reading her/his emails.
Most mail user agents support UTF-8 nowadays.
According to the headers of you mail, you muse Mozilla:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021204
Mozilla supports UTF-8 as well, i.e. you should be able to
see the following correctly:
Hangul (한글)
Japanese (日本語)
German (Deutsch Süd)
(This mail is in UTF-8!)
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Mike Fabian