On 4/19/05, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, the main point of the proposed html mail is that it is multilingual. If you can convince me that a mail I (or whoever)
This is entirely inaccurate.
UTF-8 encoding works through almost every mail system out there without special attachments. On Linux (the only platform I can speak with authority about), the common mail clients (with the exception of gnus inside emacs) will correctly decode utf-8.
Since the list is primarily in english, and a great many languages can be mostly expressed with plain ascii, the existence of a wealth of software that supports UTF8 should be sufficient.
By pushing HTML email you would make it very difficult to use my choice of mail client so that someone who wishes to write 日本語の言語 has the ability to use a greater number of the less featured mail clients. I do not think this is the correct optimization.