23 Nov
2018
23 Nov
'18
4:52 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:12:32PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Worse than that, it's *American* ignorance and cultural snobbery which also
affects various English-speaking countries. The pound sign is not in US-ASCII,
and the euro sign is not in ISO-8859-1, for example.
Amusingly, peering through my inbox in which I have mail in both Dutch and
English, the only one with a UTF-8 subject line is in English. It was probably
composed on a Windows box which "helpfully" turned a hyphen into an en-dash.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 01:55, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
[...]
Also I have it
configured to dust-bin any incomimg mail containing UTF-8
chars in the Subject header. Avoids a lot of time-wasting.
That's
English-language cultural snobbery. I'm a native Anglophone but I live
in a non-English speaking country, Czechia.