Re: [gmime-devel] Encoding headers: Is UTF-8 a sane default now?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

> > I'd be happy to remove more of them, I just want to be careful about 
> > doing that until we get data for those regions that the iso charsets 
> > have been deprecated and/or we know that the vast majority of clients 
> > used by users in those regions support UTF-8.
>
> Well if it's any indication, Geary seems to have a number of users 
> from around the world and while it always sends message bodies as 
> UTF-8 I haven't been able to find a bug complaining about that. In 
> fact, this issue of sending headers not using UTF-8 is the only thing 
> I have heard.

I might try taking a look into what Evolution and Thunderbird do. 
MimeKit (my .NET equivalent of GMime) also defaults to UTF-8 for 
anything other than iso-8859-1 and there have been no complaints yet and 
I know there are people using it around the globe, but it also has a 
better API allowing developers to override the charset being used (i.e. 
not a cumbersome set_user_charsets() API), so for all I know, people 
could be using that - but based on my experience with people generally 
sticking to defaults, probably not... which does lend credibility to the 
idea that we could probably get away with just using UTF-8 and dropping 
the charset table.

Dropping the charset table also has the benefit of reducing the 
code-size of libgmime.so by a not-insignificant amount, which I am 
totally in favor of.

Jeff