Re: internationalization of mail

Tex Texin writes:
> The thrust of my questions is to find out the percentage of mail 
> messages is incorrectly labeled or not labeled with an encoding, and 
> may therefore be risky to transcode.
I've never seen good statistics on anything like this, and I've read 
these lists for more than a decade. I assume the reason is that most 
mail is private, and users keep it private.
Anecotally, it seems that unlabelled mail is seen now and then. 
Mislabelled is unusual.
> Secondarily there are many products that support Unicode but not 
> necessarily the full (or nearly full) character repertoire.
> I need to understand whether moving to Unicode means some mail clients 
> won't support some languages.
It won't make much of a difference. Enough messages have been sent using 
unicode recently that most readers have been upgraded to accept it.
Don't worry so much about the character repertoire. That you can't use 
all of that repertoire doesn't matter, as long as the product can show 
that which the user can (and wants to) read.
Arnt