The assertion that mnemonic "looks reasonably nice to unextended viewers"
is only true for western European languages as I and others have repeatedly
pointed out. What is needed is a "reasonably universal encoding" for ALL
languages. Now I am happy to accept that Mnemonic is suitable for western
European languages, but we really do need some alternate method that works
well for ALL languages. Generality is desirable.
I've disagreed about this before. I'd really like to understand your position.
Do you agree that if the recipient has mail software that understands
the Mnemonic character set and can display all the glyphs there-in then
he will never know that it was encoded in mnemonic not in AUC (say)?
This is the situation we are aiming for.
The fall-back where the recipient sees the encoding _only_ occurs when
the recipient is using an old or otherwise ignorant mail reader. Now if
the recipient has an old or otherwise ignorant mail reader then it can
only show us-ascii characters. Isn't this bound to be just a touch
euro-centric. How can it possibly be otherwise?
Bob Smart