[TriLUG] Email: Character Encoding

Jack Hill jackhill at jackhill.us
Mon Jul 30 13:30:07 EDT 2012


On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:21:19 -0400
Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
 
> I highly recommend using UTF-8 everywhere.

I forgot to say why I recommend this: you don’t have to worry about
what to do when you get/send characters not in your encoding. Correct
programs should fall back correctly, but I used the word should…

Jack

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