UTF-8 has become the de facto standard for the web, like it or not.
From the wikipedia page:
"UTF-8 has become the dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web, accounting for 83.3% of all Web pages in March 2015 (with most popular East Asian encoding, GB 2312, at 1.3%).[2][3][4] The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) recommends that all e-mail programs be able to display and create mail using UTF-8.[5] The W3C recommends UTF-8 as default encoding in their main standards (XML and HTML)." On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote:
The simplest approach, assuming senders are unwilling or unable to stop sending non-ASCII, would be to shut down the digest and force everyone to subscribe to one message at a time.
Well, the simplest thing is to do nothing and those who care more about getting the original characters than about receiving a digest will switch.
I hope that doesn't happen. I prefer the digest, so as to mitigate header bloat. I like being able to save all messages on all lists forever onto a 4-gig thumb drive in my pocket.
Wouldn't gzip get rid of most of the overhead? -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com