Subj : Automatically promote UTF-8 in editors?
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Mon Sep 19 2022 03:17 pm

 TS> following the latest charset discussion, it came to my mind that it
 TS> might be a nice idea, to promote the transition from legacy charsets to
 TS> UTF-8 by editors automatically changing to charset on reply to UTF-8 for
 TS> areas where UTF-8 seems to be acceptable. The idea is that this way to
 TS> some extent tools with broad charset support convert the resulting
 TS> threads at least partially for everybody else as long as UTF-8 support
 TS> is not an issue for the readers.

   Excellent idea. But it's not really an FTSC matter. It's an FTN editor of your choice matter. My editor (I think it's shown below) has worked like that for 15+ years now. It's all about accepting the fact that some editors from the last century may not be worth clinging on to any more.


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