Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

From: Christophe Courtois (christophe_at_courtois.cc)
Date: 08/22/03

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    To: Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>, debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:49:03 +0200

    Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 00:08, Alex Malinovich a déclamé :
    > Assuming you're exchanging messages with friends who have French,
    > Japanese, and English fonts installed, and that their mailers support
    > Unicode, you'll obviously have no problem. Assuming that they speak and

      Yeah, it's OK. With Kmail, I can use : French ( œ æ € Ç ),
    German ( ß),
    Polish (całego świata. Dostępne są też ŽŽ),
    Chinese ( 新聞、商業信息、文化藝 ),
    Japanese (ダンス・エレクトロニカ ),
    Thaï (พระราชดำริสมเด็จพระเทพรัตนราชสุดาฯ สยามบ),
    Hebrew (זכרמב - הבכרמה טקיורפ),
    something from India (ैं ओर राष्ट्रपति सद्दाम हुसैन से मिल चुके हैं. ),
    Russian (Слова и музыка)...

     The only problem is to have a nice font to display the message. For
    example, I use Bitstream fonts.

     Charset here is utf-8. 

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