From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Unicode and email
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:47:08 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Ted White wrote:
>
> It also takes over your email; responding to a post in unicode your
> reply
> will also be in unicode, even if you've set your email client for plain
> text replies.
>
> --Ted White

You are mixing up Unicode and HTML email.  Unicode is an encoding scheme
designed to allow every alphabet (and ideographic system and abjad,
etc.) and
language to be treated on equal terms. It does not imply any sort of
formatting,
though Unicode files and plain ASCII files (or ISO Latin-1) files need
different
treatment.

HTML email is a scheme for giving email the same capabilities and
security
risks as HTML files on the web.  I agree that HTML email is bad; I can
live with
the MIME extensions  that allow people to attach files to email, as I
can control
what to do with the attachments.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow