Re: [Evolution] "Default character Encoding" doesn't effect message header

[Kenn Sakai<sakai soum co jp>]

Hi.

From: Colin Walters<walters debian org>
Subject: Re: [Evolution] "Default character Encoding" doesn't effect message    header
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:49:43 -0400

> Well, one thing to note is that only Emacs 21.1 or newer supports utf-8
> (and XEmacs doesn't at all, AFAIK); that means that all the Emacs-based
> mail clients (e.g Gnus, VM, Wanderlust, SEMI, Mew) won't support it
> unless they're running on a new enough version of GNU Emacs.
>
> Given that some of those (like Wanderlust) seem to be popular, and also
> seem to have a mostly Japanese-only audience, I suspect there are a fair
> number of Japanese users of GNU/Linux and Unix for whom utf-8 isn't
> usable.
>
> I mention this because I notice Kenn is using Mew (an Emacs-based mail
> client) on Emacs 20.7.

Thanks Colin, that's exactly right.

Actually, a number(most)of Unix/Linux users use Emacs-based mail clients
as mailer.