On 09/02/12 16:54, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:12:56 +1100 Basil Chupin<blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Even in pre utf-8 times mail agent that forced users to switch trough few code pages to find right one couldn't be considered well designed. Ummmm, could be just a bit of an overstatement here, Rajko :-) . Thunderbird, which is now at version 10, gives one the choice of using any number of character sets, including ISO 8859-1 - and I don't think that you could argue that Thunderbird is not "well designed" :-) . Thunderbird (TB) is offering alternatives if automatic selection fails, but it sets character set automatically, and good most of the time. I can't recall problems with TB for a very long time, but I recall some old times where I had to change character set in order to read message.
BTW, SM Mail here is using the default SeaMonkey charset: Western (iso-8859-1?; not utf-8), which normally is suitable for English language mailing lists ... UTF-8 is used for English too, and with Linux it is default, Is it really the default? I didn't know.
There are at least 2 people posting here - and one of them I believe is an openSUSE employee using their internal mail system :-) - who don't use UTF-8. You can override default settings, ie. UTF-8. Fonts, character sets and languages don't mix well all the time, so sometimes you can be forced to use specific combination. Other times you can have old understanding of code tables and set something that is not needed to be set.
Default in this mail agent is automatic. It will post new mails in UTF-8, and for answer to some email it will use character set of original mail. My answer to Felix is in US-ASCII, and I didn't touch character set selection. Check character set of this email :)
Rajko, sit back relax, take a large gulf of your favourite alcoholic beverage, or even take a large inhalation of your favourite brand of weed :-) , and smile and come up with a look of being contented :-) . Here I am concluding that you are still talking about SeaMonkey - "SM" - right? And also, as I think, that you stated that SeaMonkey is nothing more than Thunderbird in "sheep's clothing" (ie, SM is the continuation of the Netscape suite, which it is). I have been using TB and FF since year dot. In all this time TB has never had an "automatic" default of using a particular character set[##]. It has never defaulted to using UTF-8 for example. It defaults to Western ISO 8859-1. I have had to manually set the character set to UTF-8 in TB (and in FF for that matter[##]). [##] I have to admit that while I have been using both TB and FF since year dot, I have also used the same contents of /.moziilla and /.thundrbird since that year dot - from my earlier days of foolishly using Windows' version of both to then switching to Linux. BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org