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From: Painius <starswir...@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Would you drag me down to the lowest common denominator, F-Agent ? 
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:45:17 -0400
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:34:08 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> wrote:

>?[Jeff-Relf...@Oct.31{2.34.AM.Seattle.2012}]
>For you Painius, I stopped posting HTML,
>because your newsreader, F-Agent, doesn't understand it.
>Also, F-Agent is confined to one font, one language: mostly English.
>
>Now I can't post proper links, like you see on web pages.
>Thank you very much !  Not.
>
>Mainstream email apps ( e.g. gMail, Yahoo, Live Mail and Thunderbird )
>properly display UTF-8 (a "charset"), with it's many languages/fonts.
>By "languages", I mean math, physics, symbols and Japanese... tribes.
>
>Would you deny me that too ? !
>Would you drag me down to the lowest common denominator, F-Agent ?
>
>Today's apps "sniff out" the charset because older email apps (Win XP)
>don't specify the charset of the "Subject:" line.
>Older apps (incl. Outlook and Thunderbird) are still quite popular.
>
>The "" that you see, Painius, is F-Agent thinking my U+FeFF
>is plain English (ISO-8859-1), not multi?lingual Unicode (UTF-8).
>
>The U+FeFF at the end of the "Subject:" line tells you it's UTF-8.
>So we need a new "RFC" ( i.e. a new coding standard ) that says:
>
>  The entire header is multi?lingual (UTF-8).
>
>Elsewhere on Usenet, I'm talking to the people who can do that.
>Will it happen soon ? not likely, but it should.
>Unlike me, these "RFC gurus" (old farts) don't code for Asians.

Like you told me, Jeff - don't go changin' just for me. 

The subject came up, I put in my < 2¢ worth, end of story. 

Billy Joel... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCoBTzrN9E 

-- 
Indelibly yours, 
Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ 
"UseNet does not change; we change."