Talk:Unicode and email

Web-based email

Does anyone know about Unicode support in various webbased email services? I know that GMail is UTF-8 by default (hail hail the GMail!) and Yahoo and Hotmail are crappy (the last time tried).

Plus - personal rant:

This rant doesn't have much to do with the article, but i totally, totally love Unicode and i send all my email with it and everyone should do like me. Just set up your mailer to send Unicode by default (btw, it's the default in GMail). Be active, set up an example - tell all your friends. Especially those who are not too knowledgeable with computers - i've done this to some of my friends in their Outlook Express's and no-one has complained yet. If everyone does it, it will become viral and eventually everyone will adopt it. Unicode is just right.

That's it, i should stop wasting precious storage space right now.--Amir E. Aharoni 18:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added paragraph

Most modern mail clients support Unicode but it is rarely the default. The bulk of e-mail character representation needs were satisfied just fine by the ability to specify which charset an e-mail was in. Using unicode could simplify a program that only sent e-mail and needed to support multiple scripts but receiving e-mail still requires the ability to deal with whatever charset the sender chooses. (Added to the article by User:Plugwash)

The first line duplicates a line in the introduction. "just fine" is opinionated; Farsi-speaking users weren't handled just fine. Using Unicode is near unavoidable by programs that need to handle a variety of character sets. I just don't see what this adds to the article.--Prosfilaes 20:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SeaMonkey & Opera

How to configure SeaMonkey and Opera mail ?