UTF-8?

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:46, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > You can eradicate the scourge of UTF-8 by sticking this in
> > your .bashrc (assuming you use bash):
>
> It seems you live and work in a singular world.
>
> > # Redhat is fooling themselves if they think UTF8 actually functions well
> > # all the time (or even any of the time)...
>
> You are quite wrong in that statement.  It is only thru Unicode and the
> various encodings, UTF8 being one of them, where in a single email people
> can communicate in more than one language or character set.
>
> 楊秀蔭
> 渋谷
> 라톤테크의 뉴스 게시판입니다
> 巨人主场20比38惜败芝加哥熊队
>
> My wife can speak and write in English, Korean, and Chinese.  Her brother
> can speak and write in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.  Her brother's wife
> only speaks and writes Korean...and she is also not computer literate.  So,
> when my wife emails to her brother she writes in "Traditional Chinese" and
> will sometimes include a portion in Korean for her sister in law to read.
>
> Without UTF8 that would have been quite impossible.

The theory sounds good, but as far as I know kde is configured to use utf8 and 
kmail is also so configured, but I don't think that what I'm seeing is what 
you intended - see attached.

Anne
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