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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